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The paper examines how Cinderella’s story was turned into a postmodern comic rendering in the 2021 film version. The comic reinterpretation of this classic fairy tale fundamentally changed the protagonist while also affecting the entire arch of the narrative. Due to this comic approach, Cinderella got transformed into an independent woman with agen...
“Sisu(datu), the Funny Female Dragon of the Disney Universe” in
AMERICANA, E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary, Special Issue on American Humor, Volume XIX, Number 1, 2023, available: https://americanaejournal.hu/vol19no1/tzsa
In the Disney movie Raya and the Last Dragon (2021, hence mentioned as Raya) Sisu(datu) or simply just Sisu, the drag...
„A feminista humor lehetőségei”( “The Possibilities of Feminist Humor”)in "So Far So Good" Festschrift in Honour of Erzsébet Barát / Tanulmányok Barát Erzsébet köszöntésére. Edited by Anna Kérchy and Irén Annus. Szeged: TNT eBooks, 2023, 217-226.ISSN 2939-7952ISBN (pdf) 978-963-306-916-5 ISBN (print) 978-963-306-915-8 DOI: 10.14232/tntebooks.1.2023...
“Jane Austen, the Humourist” in Fidele Signaculum. Írások Szőnyi György Endre tiszteletére. / Writings in Honour of György Endre Szőnyi. Edited by Attila Kiss, Ágnes Matuska és Róbert Péter. Szeged: Szegedi Tudományegyetem, Bölcsészet- és Társadalomtudományi Kar, Angol-Amerikai Intézet, 2022, 959-970.https://www.ieas-szeged.hu/ieas-e-books/?fbclid=...
The paper discusses three works written by Sandra Cisneros, namely Woman Hollering Creek, The House on Mango Street and Caramelo, from the point of view of women’s humor. With the help of these works, it is argued that Cisneros uses Latina humor in order to highlight intersectional problems concerning her identity and to reveal important facts and...
“Borderlands and Humorous Transgressions in Machete (2010) and Machete Kills (2013)” in Réka M. Cristian, Zoltán Dragon and András Lénárt (ed.)Transnational Americas: Home(s), Borders and Transgressions. Szeged: AMERICANAeBooks, 2019, 93-104. available: http://ebooks.americanaejournal.hu/books/transnational-americas/
“Humor and Catachresis in Emily Dickinson’s Death Poetry” in AMERICANA, E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary, Volume XV, Number 1,2019, available: http://americanaejournal.hu/vol15no1/toth
Abstract: The paper discusses how Emily Dickinson, with the help of humor and catachresis – both of which work with the logic of defamiliarization/refamiliar...
“A női humor vetületei”(“Aspects of women’s humor”)in TNTeF, Társadalmi Nemek Tudománya Interdiszciplináris eFolyóirat, Volume8, Number 2, 2018, pp. 5-25, (ISSN: 2062-7084), available:http://tntefjournal.hu/vol8/iss2/tothzsa.pdf
Dolgozatomban a női humor és humorhasználat kérdéseit szeretném körüljárni. Habár ma már elfogadott tény, hogy a nők biol...
This paper discusses the violent female characters in the Disney World and argues that although the Disney Studio seems to be a rather unlikely candidate for giving us some of the most memorable and complex violent women in Hollywood, it still seems to be the case. From the Wicked Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) to Merida in Brave (...
“Merida and Mother Bear: a Lesson in Feminist CulturalPedagogy”in Anna Kérchy (ed.) InterspeciesDialogues in Postmillenial Filmic FantasiesSpecial Issue, AMERICANA, E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary, Volume XIII, Number 2, Fall 2017 (ISSN: 1787-4637), available:http://americanaejournal.hu/vol13no2/tzsa
“Lady Susan as the Great Exemplar of Dysfunctional Parenthood in Jane Austen’s Fiction” in Veronika Ruttkay and Bálint Gárdos (ed).HUSSE 11, Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the Hungarian Society for the Study of English. Budapest: L’Harmattan, 2014, 284-294. available: http://www.eltereader.hu/kiadvanyok/husse-11-proceedings-of-the-11th-confe...
“Emma: Jane Austen’s Most Imperfect Heroine and Most Perfect Novel”, TNTeF, Társadalmi Nemek Tudománya Interdiszciplináris eFolyóirat,Volume 2, Number 1, Special Issue, 2012, pp. 82-89. (ISSN: 2062-7084), available: http://primus.arts.u-szeged.hu/ieas/gender/tntef/vol2/vol1_special_issue/08_toth.pdf
“Jane Austen Reloaded” in Kinga Földváry, Zsolt Almási and Veronica Schandl (ed). HUSSE 10-LitCult, Proceedings of the HUSSE 10 Conference, Literature & Culture Volume. Debrecen: Hungarian Society for the Study of English, 2011, 302-310.,
available:http://mek.oszk.hu/10100/10171/10171.pdf
In this paper, I intend to examine the diachronic inter/cu...
“Let me mend your pen, Mr Darcy”: Lewd and Aggressive Women in Jane Austen’s Fiction”in Andrew C. Rouse, Gertrud Szamosi and Gabriella Vöő (ed). CrosSections Volume 2: Selected papers in literature and culture from the 9th HUSSE conference. Pécs: Molnár Nyomda és Kiadó, 2010, 185-195.
“The (Im)morality of the New Woman in the Early 20th Century” in Chovanec, Jan (ed).Theory and Practice in English Studies, Volume 4: Proceedings from the Eighth Conference of English, American and Canadian Studies. Brno: Masaryk University, 2005, 255-260. (ISBN 80-210-3836-5), available: http://www.phil.muni.cz/plonedata/wkaa/Offprints%20THEPES%20...
This paper discusses the question of daydreams and the function of daydreaming. With a major focus on Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams and Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming, it is revealed how daydreaming functions and what its role is in human life. After having presented that dreams, daydreams and thinking can be viewed as a continuum...
