Peripheralities: 'Minor' Literatures, Women's Literature, and Adrienne Orosz de Csicser's Novels

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Published: Jul 25, 2021

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Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek
European Academy of Sciences and Arts & Sichuan University
Györgyi Horváth

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In "Peripheralities: 'Minor' Literatures, Women's Literature, and Adrienne Orosz de Csicser's Novels" Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek discusses events surrounding Adrienne Orosz de Csicser's (1878-1934) work. For the contextualization of the events Tötösy de Zepetnek employs his own framework of "comparative cultural studies," here applied to "minor literatures" (i.e., peripheral) and women's literature and Shunqing Cao's "variation theory." While Orosz's novels are not considered exceptional, the author achieved notoriety after having been locked up in a mental institution. In addition to three published novels, in an unpublished novel (excerpts of which she read at various literary and social gatherings) Orosz narrates her love affair with a Roman Catholic bishop. Knowledge about her novel's contents resulted in the bishop orchestrating Orosz's commitment to a mental hospital. The context in which Orosz's texts are located in is the socio-political situation in Hungarian society prior to and shortly after the First World War.

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Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven, and Györgyi Horváth. 2021. “Peripheralities: ’Minor’ Literatures, Women’s Literature, and Adrienne Orosz De Csicser’s Novels”. Interdisciplinary EJournal of Gender Studies 11 (1):61-74. https://ojs.bibl.u-szeged.hu/index.php/tntef/article/view/39157.
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Vol. 11 No. 1 (2021)
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Translation
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Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, European Academy of Sciences and Arts & Sichuan University

 

 

 

STEVEN TÖTÖSY DE ZEPETNEK was born in 1950 in Hungary, emigrated to Austria in 1964, to Canada in 1975, and to the USA in 2000. After teaching high school he received his PhD from the University of Alberta in 1989 following which he taught comparative literature and media studies at universities in Canada, Germany, and the US until his retirement in 2016. His areas of teaching and research include comparative literature and cultural studies, media and communication studies, postcolonial studies, (im)migration & ethnic minority studies, feminist & gender studies, film & literature, digital humanities, editing & publishing in print & digital formats, history (genealogy and heraldry). In addition to his English-language publications, his work also appeared in Chinese, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Macedonian, Mahrati, Polish, Portuguese, and Spanish translation (see his lists of publications at http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/totosycv). Tötösy de Zepetnek is elected member of Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea and corporate member of the Hungarian Academy Science.

Györgyi Horváth

HORVÁTH, GYÖRGYI is a media, literature & gender scholar, with a Ph.D. in Media (2019) from the London School of Economics and another Ph.D. in Literary Studies (2006) from the University of Pécs. She taught Literature and Gender at the University of Pécs, ELTE University (Budapest), and the Balassi Institute (Budapest). Most recently she held a Research Associate post at the London School of Economics. Her recent book, Utazó elméletek (Budapest: Balassi, 2014) studies the depoliticization of “Western” cultural Marxism in post-socialist Eastern-European contexts. In 2015, the book won the prestigious Erdődy Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.