Paradise from Behind the Iron Curtain Peti Miklos
Paradise from Behind the Iron Curtain Peti Miklos The role and reception of Milton's work in Communist Hungary.This book provides a detailed survey of the key responses to Milton's work in Hungarian…
Specifikacia Paradise from Behind the Iron Curtain Peti Miklos
Paradise from Behind the Iron Curtain Peti Miklos
The role and reception of Milton's work in Communist Hungary.This book provides a detailed survey of the key responses to Milton's work in Hungarian state socialism. Appraisals of Milton's works in the communist era proved more controversial than receptions of other major Western authors: on the one hand, Milton's participation in the Civil War earned him the title of a "revolutionary hero," on the other hand, religious aspects of his works were often disregarded and sometimes proactively suppressed. The four decades between 1948 and 1989 saw a radical revision of previous critical and artistic positions and resulted in the emergence of some characteristically Eastern European responses to Milton's works.
In addition, it presents the full Hungarian script of the This book highlights these diverging responses and places them in the wider context of socialist cultural policy.