{"title":"Pain and Pandemics: Infected and Excluded Bodies in Young Adult Fantasy Literature","authors":"Natasha Audrey Anderson","doi":"10.33035/egerjes.2023.21.73","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33035/egerjes.2023.21.73","url":null,"abstract":"Illnesses can highlight inequalities in young adult fantasy literature as characters undergo exclusion and self-empowerment tied to diseases, disabled bodies, and death. In recent fictions by Marissa Meyer, Marie Lu, and Margaret Owen, heroines navigate epidemics and pandemics inciting either mistrust or mutual aid. In Cinder (2012), the protagonist experiences bodily vulnerabilities via her cyborg prosthetics and a worldwide plague. The Young Elites (2014) shows survivors of a fever facing ostracism, while The Merciful Crow (2019) depicts immunity as a boon and a burden. These books on the interpersonal impact of sickness can resonate intimately with readers today due to COVID-19.","PeriodicalId":487187,"journal":{"name":"Eger journal of English studies /","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135446556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Re-Orienting and Disorienting Fairy-Tale Studies","authors":"Katarina Labudova","doi":"10.33035/egerjes.2023.21.115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33035/egerjes.2023.21.115","url":null,"abstract":"Review. Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale: Contemporary Adaptations across Cultures. Edited by Mayako Murai and Luciana Cardi. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2020. Pp. 424. ISBN 978-0-8143-4536-8.","PeriodicalId":487187,"journal":{"name":"Eger journal of English studies /","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135446753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The History of English Literature: A New Approach","authors":"Levente Seláf, Mária Anna Finta","doi":"10.33035/egerjes.2023.21.107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33035/egerjes.2023.21.107","url":null,"abstract":"Review. Az angol irodalom története. Vol. I. A középkor. [‘History of English Literature. Vol. I. The Middle Ages.’] Edited by Tamás Karáth and Katalin Halácsy. Editors in chief: Tamás Bényei and Géza Kállay. Budapest: Kijárat, 2020. Pp. 412. ISBN: 978-615-5160-77-6.","PeriodicalId":487187,"journal":{"name":"Eger journal of English studies /","volume":"269 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135446250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"COVID Graffiti as a Genre of Literary Writing","authors":"Yelena Yernzkyan, Grisha Gasparyan","doi":"10.33035/egerjes.2023.21.89","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33035/egerjes.2023.21.89","url":null,"abstract":"The present paper focuses on COVID graffiti as a unique genre of literature. The application of Multimodal Discourse Analysis research method reveals the narrative potential of COVID graffiti texts. The results of the study point out that COVID graffiti mostly uses intertextuality as a literary discourse strategy to convey an efficient and persuasive message, alongside other strategies meant to express isolated people’s existential fears and concerns, the experienced anxiety and discomfort caused by the “new normal.” The empirical material comes to affirm the inextricable relationship between literature as verbal and the current harsh reality as non-verbal entities that complement each other in the complex process of meaning-making.","PeriodicalId":487187,"journal":{"name":"Eger journal of English studies /","volume":"2013 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135445106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An-Other’s Maimed Body: Mutilated Stories in Coetzee’s Novels","authors":"Emna Sfaihi","doi":"10.33035/egerjes.2023.21.121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33035/egerjes.2023.21.121","url":null,"abstract":"Review. The Body, Desire and Storytelling in Novels by J.M. Coetzee. By Olfa Belgacem. Abingdon: Routledge, 2018. Pp. 212 pp. ISBN 978-0-367-00234-3.","PeriodicalId":487187,"journal":{"name":"Eger journal of English studies /","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135444811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rewriting Victorian Stereotypes: Questions of Female Identity in Sarah Perry’s The Essex Serpent","authors":"Enikő Balázs","doi":"10.33035/egerjes.2023.21.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33035/egerjes.2023.21.17","url":null,"abstract":"Contemporary British novelist Sarah Perry’s pastiche, The Essex Serpent (2016), goes beyond the way women were portrayed in 19th-century fiction in several ways, including their relationships with men. Therefore, it is worth having a closer look at the complexity of female-male relationships represented in the novel. After a brief outline of the social construct known as Victorian marriage, I will examine the three main female characters’ relationships with men, let them be husbands, suitors or, for that matter, comrades. In this way, I intend to prove that these women understand female-male relationships on a spectrum transcending the stereotypical roles offered to them by Victorian society.","PeriodicalId":487187,"journal":{"name":"Eger journal of English studies /","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135444809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Non-Linear Temporal Experience in Edgar Allan Poe’s Short Fiction","authors":"Judit Anna Bánházi","doi":"10.33035/egerjes.2023.21.35","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33035/egerjes.2023.21.35","url":null,"abstract":"The goal of my article is to familiarise the reader with the notions of ‘non-linear temporality’ and ‘non-linear temporal experience.’ Based on studies of memory and neurobiology, I would like to highlight that episodic memory is a narrative process, and the past-present-future trichotomy is a bias, which can be overruled in so-called ‘non-neurotypical’ states of mind, such as trauma-induced shock and psychological illness. Edgar Allan Poe’s characters often present symptoms of psychological illnesses undefined in the early/mid-19th century with surprising accuracy, among them displaying common symptoms of NLTE (Non-Linear Temporal Experience). I aim to outline how these experiences are manifest in the particular context of his short fiction.","PeriodicalId":487187,"journal":{"name":"Eger journal of English studies /","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135445120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Representation of the Double in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Three Sherlock Holmes Narratives","authors":"Emma Telek","doi":"10.33035/egerjes.2023.21.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33035/egerjes.2023.21.3","url":null,"abstract":"The present paper examines the duality of human nature in late-nineteenth century Victorian society by exploring Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous character, Sherlock Holmes. The literary doubles of Sherlock and Watson, just as Sherlock and Moriarty, provide us with further insights into the unresolved tensions of Victorian society. These doubles also shed light on the troubles of human nature, the ongoing battle of right and wrong, light and dark, which does not pertain to just one era but remains relevant throughout the centuries.","PeriodicalId":487187,"journal":{"name":"Eger journal of English studies /","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135444810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New Hungarian Narratives in the History of English Literature","authors":"Judit Mudriczki","doi":"10.33035/egerjes.2023.21.111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33035/egerjes.2023.21.111","url":null,"abstract":"Review. Az angol irodalom története. Vol. I. A középkor. [‘History of English Literature. Vol. I. The Middle Ages.’] Edited by Tamás Karáth and Katalin Halácsy. Editors in chief: Tamás Bényei and Géza Kállay. Budapest: Kijárat, 2020. Pp. 411. ISBN 978-615-5160-77-6., Az angol irodalom története. Vol. II. A kora újkor. [‘History of English Literature. Vol. II. The Early Modern Period.’] Edited by Attila Atilla Kiss and György Endre Szőnyi. Editors in chief: Tamás Bényei and Géza Kállay. Budapest: Kijárat, 2020. Pp. 501. ISBN 978-615-5160-78-3.","PeriodicalId":487187,"journal":{"name":"Eger journal of English studies /","volume":"269 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135446232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Nowhere Else Works Like the Cities”: Liminality in The City and the City","authors":"Nikolett Sipos","doi":"10.33035/egerjes.2023.21.57","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33035/egerjes.2023.21.57","url":null,"abstract":"China Miéville’s novel, The City and the City (2009) introduces a detective story in Besźel and its topolganger, Ul Qoma. The relationship between the two cities is a strange one: even though they occupy the same place physically, they work as two separate autonomous states. By following the main character’s investigation of a young girl’s murder, the reader also gets to inquire the true nature of the cities. The narrative was adapted to screen in 2018 (The City and the City, BBC2), and thanks to the difference between the two mediums, painted a different picture about the liminal nature of the two cities. In this paper, I am going to examine how these two platforms represent the liminal nature of Besźel and Ul Qoma, and how they depict Borlú’s liminal transgression.","PeriodicalId":487187,"journal":{"name":"Eger journal of English studies /","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135445109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}