Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-75dct Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-06-05T21:30:59.320Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Hungarian Humor

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2017

Joseph Remenyi
Joseph Remenyi*
Affiliation:
Western Reserve University
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

In this essay no distinction will be made between humor and the comic spirit. While, no doubt, the form and content of humor is apt to bring to the listener or reader results differing from those of any expression of the comic spirit, the inherent differences only then become conspicuous when the social and individual causes of both prevent them from being integrated. In judging things sub specie aeternitatis humor is apt to equalize differences, and the comic spirit is apt to emphasize contrasts. The representational attribute of humor in relation to the intention of understanding is a certain innocence of the spirit, confidence, sometimes credulity; that of the comic strain answers those demands of human insight which should be considered as correlatives of man's complicated nature. Nevertheless, the distance between humor and comedy can be shortened when the latter is willing to be less critical and the former less innocent. To be sure, this approach does not aim to improve the understanding of the psychology of humor and of the comic spirit; but it aims to simplify issues which since Kant have sometimes been unduly magnified in their oppositions.

Type
Research Article
Information
Slavonic and East European Review American Series , Volume 2 , March 1943 , pp. 194 - 210
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 1943

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Bibliography

In English

Bartok, Bela, Hungarian Music (London: Humphrey Milford, 1931)Google Scholar
Eckhart, Ferenc, A Short History of the Hungarian People (London: Grant Richards, 1931)Google Scholar
Jaszi, Oscar, The Dissolution of the Habsburg Monarchy (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1929)Google Scholar
Kosary, G. D., A History of Hungary (Cleveland and New York: Benjamin Franklin Bibliophile Society, 1941)Google Scholar
Lederer, Charlotte, Made in Hungary (Budapest: George Vajna, 1932)Google Scholar
Macartney, C. A., Hungary and Her Successors (New York: Oxford University Press, 1937)Google Scholar
Pribishevich, Stoyan, World Without End (New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1939)Google Scholar
Frederick, Riedl, History of Hungarian Literature (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1906)Google Scholar
Roucek, J. S. (Editor), Contemporary Europe (New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, 1941)Google Scholar
Viski, Karoly, Hungarian Peasant Customs (Budapest: George Vajna, 1932)Google Scholar

In Hungarian

Ecsedi Istvan es Bodnar Lajos: Hortobagyi Pasztor es Betyar Notak. (“Shepherd and Highway Songs of the Hortobagy”), Meliusz, Debrecen, 1927.Google Scholar
Sandor, Endrodi: Magyar Nepdalok (Hungarian Folksongs), Franklin Tarsulat, Budapest, 1906.Google Scholar
Geza, Feja: Elet es Alom (“Life and Dream”), Kazinczy Konyvkiado, Tornalja, Czechoslovakia, 1934.Google Scholar
Janos, Horvath: A Magyar Irodalmi Muveltseg Kezdetei (“The Beginnings of Hungarian Literary Culture”), Magyar Szemle Tarsasag, Budapest, 1931.Google Scholar
Gyula, Illyes: Magyarok (“Hungarians”), Nyugat, Budapest, 1938.Google Scholar
Gyula, Illyes: A Pusztak Nepe (“The People of the Steppe”) Nyugat, Budapest, 1937.Google Scholar
Geza, Juhasz: A Magyar Szellem Vandorulja (“The Odyssey of the Hungarian Spirit”), Ady Tarsasag, Debrecen, 1938.Google Scholar
Gyula, Ortutay es Gyorgy, Buday: Szekely Nepballadak (“Folkballads of the Szekely People”), Kiralyi Magyar Egyetemi Nyomda, Budapest, 1937.Google Scholar
Aladar, Schopflin: A Magyar Irodalom Tortenele a Huszadik Szazadban (“The History of Hungarian Literature in the Twentieth Century”), Nyugat, Budapest, 1937.Google Scholar
Gyula, Szekfu: Harom Nemzedek (“Three Generations”), Kiralyi Magyar Egyetemi Nomda, Budapest, 1934.Google Scholar