Az Eszterházy Károly Tanárképző Főiskola Tudományos Közleményei. 1993. [Vol. 1.] Eger Journal of American Studies. (Acta Academiae Paedagogicae Agriensis : Nova series ; Tom. 21)
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references to Hungarian literature. The consciousness of Irish people is linked to that of Hungarian people. The dialectal logic of both/and is examined and the coherence between suffering and redemption, guilt and forgiveness, hopelessness and hope, damnation and salvation is regarded as being rather in a dialectal unity than in the logical succession of cause and effect. Pál Csontos' "Bernard Malamud: Human, Humane, Humanitanian?" focuses on the acceptance of life and art in Malamud's Pictures ofFidelman and The Tenants. Unfortunately not many articles have been written on African literature. Katalin Egri's "An Interpretation of 'The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born' by Ayi Kwei Armah" observes the effect of corruption on culture in Ghana. József Hruby also touches the corruptive influence of power in his essay "Writers in Arms: G. Orwell and A. Koestler on the Spanish Civil War." By analyzing the two authors' works Hruby draws the conclusion that Orwell was the great writer and Koestler was the great thinker. Mária Kurdi introduces the poetry of Len Roberts whom she knows personally. In "On the Poetry of Len Roberts" she analyzes some poems by Roberts and reveals Roberts' past when he began his career as translator by rendering contemporary Hungarian poetry into English. Eva Miklódy contrasts the traditional stereotypical roles of black women to their actual roles in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Wathing God. In "Postmodernism, Modernism, Premodermism and the Fantastic Meet the American Consciousness and literature Midway in the Twentieth Century" Donald E. Morse observes the shift in attitudes from the premodern and modern to the postmodern. The writer of the essay takes the example of three American presidents —Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Richard Milhous Nixon —whose careers typify the three types of consciousness. Klára Szabó's "From Environmentalism to Right Brain Theater" begins with the history of Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway theaters. The 168
