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oapen-20.500.12657-578032022-08-06T03:01:39Z Paradise from behind the Iron Curtain Péti, Miklós John Milton Hungary communism socialism reception literary criticism literature translation bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics::CFP Translation & interpretation bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBL History: earliest times to present day::HBLW 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 Paradise from behind the Iron Curtain provides a detailed survey of the key responses to Milton’s work in Hungarian state socialism. 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. Critical and artistic 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. Ranging through all the genres of Milton’s oeuvre as well as the critical tradition, the book highlights these diverging responses and places them in the wider context of socialist cultural policy. In addition, the author presents the full Hungarian script of the 1970 theatrical performance of Milton’s Paradise Lost, the first of its kind since the work’s publication, including a parallel English translation, which enables a deeper reflection on Milton’s original theodicy and its possible interpretations in communist Hungary. 2022-08-05T15:38:05Z 2022-08-05T15:38:05Z 2022 book ONIX_20220805_9781787358539_13 9781787358539 9781787358546 9781787358553 9781787358560 9781787358577 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57803 eng Literature and Translation application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International 9781787358539.pdf UCL Press UCL Press 10.14324/111.9781787358539 10.14324/111.9781787358539 df73bf94-b818-494c-a8dd-6775b0573bc2 9781787358539 9781787358546 9781787358553 9781787358560 9781787358577 UCL Press London open access
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Paradise from behind the Iron Curtain provides a detailed survey of the key responses to Milton’s work in Hungarian state socialism. 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. Critical and artistic 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. Ranging through all the genres of Milton’s oeuvre as well as the critical tradition, the book highlights these diverging responses and places them in the wider context of socialist cultural policy. In addition, the author presents the full Hungarian script of the 1970 theatrical performance of Milton’s Paradise Lost, the first of its kind since the work’s publication, including a parallel English translation, which enables a deeper reflection on Milton’s original theodicy and its possible interpretations in communist Hungary.
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