Az Eszterházy Károly Tanárképző Főiskola Tudományos Közleményei. 2002. Vol. 8. Eger Journal of American Studies.(Acta Academiae Paedagogicae Agriensis : Nova series ; Tom. 28)

Studies - Mária Kurdi: "Hold like rich garners the full-ripen'd grain." On the Scholarly Heritage of Péter Egri (1932-2002)

with "the strictly lateral view of the three profiles" (164). Another example is Felix Mendelssohn's "Overture" to the opera A Midsummer Night's Dream, which endeavours to transmit some of the subtleties of Shakespeare's dramatic characterization by purely musical means. The artist's work is appreciated for meeting the challenge through his choice of E major as the basic key of the piece, "a magic key" which seems to be able to evoke "the magic of nature" in the wording of the analyst (169). In this part of the essay a considerably detailed and appropriately illustrated discussion pays due attention to the romantic composer's efforts to create a kind of musical ambiguity to serve as an authentic counterpart of Shakespeare's verbal art. All in all, this last volume of Egri's scholarly oeuvre has the unique feature that while it re-deploys the viewpoint of axiology it succeeds in discovering an even broader range of intrinsic connections between literature and the sister arts than the previous books. Coda: Values in Balance A not at all insignificant aspect of Egri's scholarly heritage is how his writings present research findings, new ideas, and make comments. The prose of his critical works can be found exemplary for its subtle and witty use of language and sharp logic of argumentation. It is with extraordinary verbal precision that he expounds the merits of literary works and describes the manifold results of artistic crossfertilization. His books and studies testify that the value of his awesome erudition and thorough understanding of the essence of the arts has found its appropriate expression not only in chiselled argument and finely structured syntax but also in style. In her contribution to the Discussion Panel in Memory of Péter Egri at the HUSSE 6 Conference in 2003, Krisztina Szalay chose to speak about the scholar's very last volume, Text in Context, and took special care to remind the audience of the richness of humour complicating as well as colouring the discursive and analytical arsenal characteristic of the essays. "From Painting to Play: Duchamp and Stoppard" begins with a highly comic question-and-answer game, alluding to the par excellence artistic, non-mimetic origin of the painting the playwright was intrigued by: 33