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"In Women's Literary Tradition and Twentieth-Century Hungarian Writers, Anna Menyhért presents the cases of five women writers whose legacy literary criticism has [been] neglected or distorted, the...
"In Women's Literary Tradition and Twentieth-Century Hungarian Writers, Anna Menyhért presents the cases of five women writers whose legacy literary criticism has [been] neglected or distorted, thereby depriving succeeding Hungarian generations of vital cultural memory and the inspiration that [they] bring. The bold voices of poets Renée Erdős and Minka Czóbel challenged gender norms in relation to sex and relationships. Ágnes Nemes Nagy, celebrated for her 'masculine' poems, felt she must suppress her 'feminine' poems. Famous writer's widow Ilona Harmos Kosztolányi's autobiographical writing tackles the physical challenges of girl's adolescence, and offers us a woman's thoughtful Holocaust narrative. Anna Lesznai, émigrée and visual artist, drew on techniques from the crafts of patchworking and embroidery in structuring her family saga"--