Urban Culture and the Modern City

When consulting key works on urban studies the absence of Central and Eastern European cities is striking. Cities such as Vienna Budapest Prague and Trieste where such notable figures as Freud Ferenczi Kafka and Joyce lived and worked are rarely studied in a translocal framework as if Central and Eastern Europe were still a blind spot of European modernity. This volume expands the scope of literary urban studies by focusing on Budapest and Hungarian small towns offering in-depth analyses of the intriguing link between literature the arts and material culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. This collection of essays situates Hungarian urban culture within the global flow of ideas investigating emerging local narratives as they explore the period of modernism the mid-century and the post-1989 era in a context that moves well beyond the borders of the country.This book will be made open access within three years of publication thanks to Path to Open.Contributors: rpd Bak (University of Leeds) va Federmayer (Etvs Lornd University) Magdolna Gucsa (Etvs Lornd University / HESS) gnes Gyrke (Kroli Gspr University) Ferenc Hrcher (Etvs Jzsef Research Centre) Tams Juhsz (Kroli Gspr University) Gyrgy Kalmr (University of Debrecen) Lszl Munten (Radboud University) gnes Klra Papp (Kroli Gspr University) Mrta Pellrdi (Pzmny Pter Catholic University) Eszter Ureczky (University of Debrecen).