Az Eszterházy Károly Tanárképző Főiskola Tudományos Közleményei. 1998. [Vol. 5.] Eger Journal of American Studies. (Acta Academiae Paedagogicae Agriensis : Nova series ; Tom. 25)
Book reviews - László Dányi: Methods and History: A Milestone in American Studies in Hungary. (Vadon Lehel: Az amerikai irodalom és irodalomtudomány bibliográfiája a magyar időszaki kiadványokban 1990-ig)
BOOK REVIEWS LÁSZLÓ DÁNYI METHODS AND HISTORY: A MILESTONE IN AMERICAN STUDIES IN HUNGARY ' Vadon Lehel: Az amerikai irodalom és irodalomtudomány bibliográfiája a magyar időszaki kiadványokban 1990-ig. Eger: EKTF Líceum Kiadó, 1997. 1076 pp.) If American Studies is to be considered a unique discipline, one of the major issues has been the search for an appropriate methodology in the field. However, owing to the perpetually changing nature and to the inherent complexity of the discipline, the struggle to achieve the establishment of adequate and eternal methods for American Studies has always proven to be futile. The constituent elements delineating the parameters of the discipline itself are so malleable that, after considering new perspectives and investigating all the ramifications of the topic, even the best theoreticians of the field could not explore the issue further than raising the question of how to develop a method for American Studies' . See: Henry Nash Smith. "Can American Studies Develop a Method?" American Quarterly , vol.9 (1957), 197-208. Gordon Kelly. "Literature and the Historian." American Quarterly, vol. 26 (1974). 141-159. Gene Wise. '"Paradigm Dramas' in American Studies: A Cultural and Institutional History. " American Quarterly , vol. 31 (1979), 293-337. Michael Cowan. "Boundary as Center: Inventing the American Studies Culture." Prospects , vol. 12(1987). 1-20. Philip Fisher. "Introduction" to The New American Studies. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991, vii-xxii.
