2nd Congress of International Association for Hungarian Studies
The Hungarian language, history, literature and ethnography in interaction with the cultures of the peoples of the Danubian Valley with particular reference to the turns of the 18th-19th and the 19th-20th Centuries
(Vienna, Austria, 1-5 September 1986)
Organizers:
- Ã-sterreichisches Ost- und Südosteuropa-Institut
- Institut für Finno-Ugristik der Universität Wien
Number of Participants:
360
Number of lectures:
168
Contents of the Congress:
- cultural plurality in the cultures of the peoples of the Danubian Valley with particular reference to the role of Vienna and the role of the Hungarian capital
- national matters, literature, literature studies
- questions of the peasantry's way to the third estate in the Danubian Valley - the flourishing and the decay of folk culture
- folklore as the source of national culture
- trends in literature and in the arts in the time of the two turns of centuries
- the role of linguistic studies in the evolution of the national culture