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U320/U520  Budapest as National and International City

Lynn Hooker

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Second-eight weeks course!

 

Even before Budapest was officially created by the unification of Buda, Obuda, and Pest in 1873, it was a place with multiple personalities: a commercial and artistic center, a meeting place for the many nationalities of this diverse region, and an oftentime capital city of Hungary.  This course explores the cultural and political history of this ever-changing city from its formation to the present.  Historical writings, chiefly those by historian Péter Hanák and sociologist Judit Bodnár, will be supplemented by literature, art, film, and music produced by Budapest-based artists.  The language of course readings will be English, although those with Hungarian reading knowledge will be encouraged to explore sources in their original language.

 

Textbooks:

Required

• Péter Hanák, The Garden and the Workshop: Essays on the Cultural History of Vienna and Budapest, (Princeton Press, 1998)
• Judit Bodnár, Fin-de-millenaire Budapest: Metamorphoses of Urban Life, (Minnesota, 2001)

Recommended

• John Lukacs, Budapest 1900: a historical portrait of a city and its culture, (Grove Press; Reprint edition, November 1990)
• Gyula Krúdy, Krúdy¹s Chronicles: Turn-of-the-Century Hungary in Gyula Krúdy¹s Journalism. Selected, edited and translated by John Bátki (CEU Press, 2000)

Days and Time:  Tuesday and Thursday, 4:00-6:30.

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