New Women for Old: Margit Kaffka and the Tradition of the New Woman

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My proposed paper sets out to examine the representation of the New Woman in Margit Kaffka's fiction. M uch of earlier examination of Kaffka's novels focused on their embeddedness in history, and the decay of the Hungarian gentry, but Kaffka's heroines deserve an equal amount of attention from the perspective of women's emancipation. The heroines of Colours and Years and Maria évei explore the new questions of women's professionalism, access of the public sphere, and they also analyze the position of women in the domestic sphere.


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