AMERICANA

Volume VIII, Number 2, Fall 2012

Editors: Réka M. Cristian & Zoltán Dragon

Guest Editors' Introduction

• "Multidisciplinary Approaches to American literature, Philosophy, and Art" by Ágnes Zsófia Kovács

Essays

• "“An Irreparable Loss to Literature”: Law and Literature in Herman Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener”" by Gyula Somogyi
• "Assujettissement and the Immigrant Experience in Anzia Yezierska’s Bread Givers" by Judit Szilák
• "Theory and Practice: Nella Larsen’s Novels in the Hungarian Classroom" by Eva Federmayer
• "Minimalist contentions: Fight Club as critical discourse" by László Sári B.
• "Of Homes and the “Unhomely”: Michael Cunningham’s Specimen Days" by Pramod K. Nayar
• "A Difficult Dialectic: Reading the Discourses of Love in Jeffrey Eugenides’s The Marriage Plot" by Laura E. Savu
• "Looking back for the Future: President Harrison and the Backlash of Idealism in American Politics" by Gabriel C. Gherasim
• "What the Cathedral Says: Edith Wharton’s Aesthetic Theory of Visual Arts in A Motor-Flight Through France" by Ágnes Zsófia Kovács
• "Susan Sontag: Experiencing Radicalism as Authenticity" by Marius Jucan
• "Pragmatism and Circumvention: Richard Rorty’s Rhetorical Appropriation of Jacques Derrida" by Péter Csató

Reviews

• "The Otherness in Ourselves – A Review of Julia Kristeva: Live Theory" by Anna Kérchy
• "Review of Reading Philip Roth’s American Pastoral" by Ágnes Zsófia Kovács
• "Has There Ever Been an “American Century”? A Review of The Short American Century. A Postmortem, edited by Andrew J. Bacevich" by Zoltán Peterecz
• "Let’s Keep Our Eyes on What Future Voters Are Reading! – A Review of Michelle Ann Abate’s Raising Your Kids Right: Children’s Literature and American Political Conservatism" by Zsuzsanna Tóth
• "A Portrait with Punctum and Aura: Review of vol. XIII. (2012) of the Eger Journal of American Studies, Special Issue In Honor of Professor Zsolt Kálmán Virágos" by Péter Kristóf Makai
• "“Frankly, Scarlett, We Were Born to Live Forever!” – A Review of M. Carmen Gómez-Galisteo's The Wind Is Never Gone" by Attila Mócza
• "Review of The Beauty of Words or the Truth of the Bibliographer. Tribute to Lehel Vadon edited by Z. Abádi Nagy, J. Á. Kádár, A. Tarnóc" by András Csillag

 

Cover image © by Máté Mészáros