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<p>This study treats literature as a reflection of cultural memory and explores how literature mediates between mythical and cultural relations to the natural world. The paper aims to promote interdisciplinary dialogue between cultural memory, ecocriticism, and literary studies and draws on foundational texts from these disciplines and previous research that seeks to link them as a theoretical basis. By analysing the works of Gábor Devecseri, chosen as representative examples, the paper demonstrates how literature reveals the return to the deep layers of cultural memory represented in myths and the defects of the relationship between humans and nature, and how it thus contributes to the understanding of a complex (and interdisciplinary) process.</p>
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This study treats literature as a reflection of cultural memory and explores how literature mediates between mythical and cultural relations to the natural world. The paper aims to promote interdisciplinary dialogue between cultural memory, ecocriticism, and literary studies and draws on foundational texts from these disciplines and previous research that seeks to link them as a theoretical basis. By analysing the works of Gábor Devecseri, chosen as representative examples, the paper demonstrates how literature reveals the return to the deep layers of cultural memory represented in myths and the defects of the relationship between humans and nature, and how it thus contributes to the understanding of a complex (and interdisciplinary) process.

The Oleander Bush at Delphi, The Minotaur in the Bullring

Hungarian Studies Yearbook

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Nature, Myth, and Cultural Memory in the works of Gábor Devecseri

This study treats literature as a reflection of cultural memory and explores how literature mediates between mythical and cultural relations to the natural...

The Oleander Bush at Delphi, The Minotaur in the Bullring

Published Online: Nov 02, 2023

Page range: 51 - 61

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/hsy-2023-0004

Keywords
cultural memory, mythology, nature, ecocriticism, Gábor Devecseri

© 2023 Anikó Polgár, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

The Oleander Bush at Delphi, The Minotaur in the Bullring

Published Online: Nov 02, 2023

Page range: 51 - 61

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/hsy-2023-0004

Keywordscultural memory, mythology, nature, ecocriticism, Gábor Devecseri

© 2023 Anikó Polgár, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
cultural memory, mythology, nature, ecocriticism, Gábor Devecseri