1st Congress of International Association for Hungarian Studies
Teaching of Hungarian Studies past and present
(Budapest, Hungary, 10-14 August, 1981)
Organizer:
Department of Language and Literature Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Number of participants:
330
330
Number of lectures:
125
125
Contents of the Congress:
Teaching the Hungarian Studies outside Hungary
- in Central-East-Europe
- ain the Soviet Union and by the relative nations
- in Western Europe and in America
Hungarian Versification
- The Origins of Hungarian Verse
- The linguistic and metric foundations of Hungarian verse
- function of Hungarian verse in Hungarian literature
- The history and typology of Hungarian prosody
- The criteria of 'poeticity' in the 20th Century Hungarian poetry
- The place of folk poetry within Hungarian poetry
- Possibilities and means of translating Hungarian verse into other languages
Roundtable Discussion
- entries with Hungarian relevance in foreign Encyclopedias
- planning a handbook on Hungarian Studies