Az Eszterházy Károly Tanárképző Főiskola Tudományos Közleményei. 1993. [Vol. 1.] Eger Journal of American Studies. (Acta Academiae Paedagogicae Agriensis : Nova series ; Tom. 21)

BOOK REVIEWS - László Dányi: Studies in English and American Culture. Proceedings of the Conference on English and American Studies, Eger, 1989. 338 pp. Edited by Lehel Vadon

major tendencies that have emerged within the Off-Off Broadway movement are described in details. Péter Szaffkó analyzes the role of historical drama in Canadian literature in his "History as a Subject in Modern English-Canadian Drama". He shows how history as a subject in Canadian Drama has contributed to the emergence of a truly Canadian form. Károly Szokolay illustrates the peculiarities of Dezső Mészöly's interpretations of Shakespeare. Lehel Vadon writes about the reception of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in Hungary. The essay regards Longfellow as being rather a genuine American poet growing up from American soil than a derivative poet immitating the manners of English poetry. The extensive notes prove that the essay covers a wide range of material. After the essay a full bibliography of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in Hungary follows. The bibliography is divided into the following sections: Longfellows works in Hungarian translation, his poems in Hungarian anthologies and in periodicals, the Hiawatha in Hungarian periodicals and a list of secondary sources in Longfellow's reception in Hungary. Two articles were published in the Civilization section. Tamás Magyarics discusses the Anglo-Irish Relations between 1825 and 1848. Zsolt Virágos analyzes the relationship of myth and ideology in the American civil religion. In the Linguistics section all the essays except one are written in English. One third of the authors in this section are from the College of Education in Eger. The Education section closes the volume, in which three articles are published in the field of methodology. The volume is of high standard and is well-arranged. It reflects the thorough research carried out by scholars all over Hungary at the end of the 80s. 169