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The Allegories Organizing the Poet Miklós Zrínyi’s Biography: the Interaction Between Love and Ideology in Ferenc Teleki’s Biography of Zrínyi (1821) nineteenth-century Zrínyi-cult are not sufficiently explored. The few studies on Zrínyi (Katalin Hász-Fehér; Pál S. Varga) only focus on particular phenomena which do not explain the complexity of the attitude towards Zrínyi.
The paper forms part of the research in which I intend to define the primary context of Miklós Jósika’s novel entitled Zrínyi the Poet (Zrínyi, a költő, 1843). When examining historical novels, the used resources, which for today’s researcher are factors outside literature, are of primary importance.
In my paper I examine Ferenc Teleki’s biography of Zrínyi, written in German, published in the periodical Taschenbuch für die vaterländische Geschichte. The series serving the cultural (national) integration of the Habsburg Empire unintentionally served the “awakening”, that is, the identity of particular nations within the empire. In my analysis I point at those textual places which bear the traces of the former pro-Zrínyi propaganda, besides, the rhetorical construction of the text goes beyond the scope of a historical work in the strict sense. The work is allegorical, which I prove based on Paul de Man’s work on the theory of reading (Allegories of Reading). The fate of the Zrínyi family is intertwined with the fate of the country, thus continuously pendulating between hope and disillusionment. Its climax is a figure that can be defi ned both as allegory and symbol: the Zrínyi-Újvár. The palisade castle built on Zrínyi’s command is an allegory, as it fulfils the role of the bulwark of the country and of Christianity, and a symbol, as it conveys all the initiative and political activity, patriotism and the desire of sacrifice that Zrínyi formulated and practiced.
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