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The paper examines the possible intellectual role models that the three most prominent Hungarian romantic poets suggested either with the story of their life (and, in one case, death), or with the allegorical constructions in their poetry. In the background of this investigation is a distinctly Central-European consideration: for centuries in Hungary, most social, philosophical or even technological...
In this paper I would like to examine a rather special kind of irony that could be justly called 'comparative irony'. What I have in mind is the case when an author, in order to show the worthlessness of his own age, juxtaposes some well-known cultural values of the past with their obviously less valuable present-time equivalents. My examples, the two works that I would like to compare from this point...
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