Action Suited to the Word. Essays in Memory of István Géher and Géza Kállay

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2025
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Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary
L’Harmattan Publishing
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Kállay G. Katalin - Dávid Gergő - Ruttkay Veronika - Gárdos Bálint - Géher Mária - László G. István (szerk.): Action Suited to the Word. Essays in Memory of István Géher and Géza Kállay. Budapest, Károli Gáspár Református Egyetem, L'Harmattan Kiadó, 2025. 234 p.
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978-2-336-54726-8

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36451091

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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14834/14584
Abstract
These joint volumes (in English and in Hungarian) com­memorate the life and achievement of István Géher and Géza Kállay, two foundational figures of English Studies in modern Hungary. The collection presents studies by an international cast of scholars on various aspects of litera­ture, theatre, film, and philosophy, mostly centred around the works of William Shakespeare. Literary essays, per­sonal reminiscences, translations, and original poems are also included reflecting the diverse range of two excep­tional scholars, who were also translators, creative writ­ers, essayists – and passionate educators. Each of these pieces engages with some aspect of Géher or Kállay’s work and irresistible influence. Taken together, they pay tribute to their powerful legacy and invite new readers to join the conversation. Action Suited to the Word presents scholarly papers in English written by friends, colleagues, and students of István Géher and Géza Kállay. It is accompanied by an­other volume (A szót követő tett) with scholarly papers, essays and reminiscences in Hungarian.
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Contents János Kenyeres: Opening Remarks at the Conference Action Suited to the Word Sanford Budick: Overcoming Theatricalization in Richard III: “Why Should Calamity be Full of Words?” Annamária Fábián: Adaptation, Theory and Practice – Géza Kállay and Lear’s Halo Kinga Földváry: Action Suited to the Word, in the Beginning and Ever After Bálint Gárdos: “Yet We Must Say Something”: Charlotte Smith’s Response to King Lear in the Context of the French Revolution Marcell Gellért: “The Rivals of My Watch”: Burgess and his Doubles in Nothing Like the Sun and A Dead Man in Deptford Márta Hargitai: The Even-Handedness of Justice in Macbeth John J. Joughin: “Jumping the Life to Come”: On the New Metaphysics and Macbeth, Macbeth David Scott Kastan: “Means to Mourn Some Other Way”: Plaints, Paintings, and Politics in Shakespeare’s Lucrece Veronika Schandl: “Truth Will Come to Light”: Questions of Discussing Artistic Influence in Socialist Hungarian Shakespeare Productions Brett Bourbon: Where’s the Philosophy in Literature? Ádám Czitrom: On Representing and Being Present Zoltán Márkus: Celebrating Life – Translation as an Act of Survival Péter Tamás: The Kierkegaardian Sickness unto Death in Paul Auster’s The Book of Illusions Enikő Bollobás: Teaching the Love of Literature – Remembering István Géher’s Classes in the 1970s Ágnes Beretzky: In Memoriam Carlile Aylmer Macartney (1895–1978) – British Historian and Minority-Expert in Word and Deed Géza Maráczi: “A Puritan Faun”: The Reception of D. H. Lawrence in Hungary Following the Caesura of the Aftermath of the Second World War István D. Rácz: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes – A Hungarian Perspective Zsolt Komáromy: Laudation of Géza Kállay
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Shakespeare ; anglisztika ; irodalomtörténet
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Action Suited to the Word: Essays in Memory of István Géher and Géza Kállay (2025)