Kaffka\u27s (1880-1918) Life Writing and Objection to the War

In his article Kaffka\u27s (1880-1918) Life Writing and Objection to the War Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek discusses the Hungarian author\u27s poems, diary entries, and fictional texts. While Kaffka\u27s importance as one of the most influential writers in modern Hungarian literature is recognized, her oeuvre as proto-feminist writing has only been studied only since the 1990s. Further, Kaffka\u27s anti-war writing has not been explored except in a few isolated instances. Tötösy de Zepetnek elaborates Kaffka\u27s objection to the war as seen in her poetry published in 1914 and in her diaries and correspondence and argues that Kaffka\u27s objection to the war as early as in August 1914 is significant because in most instances the war was embraced by Hungary\u27s educated strata including its leftist circles. Thus Kaffka\u27s modernist writing including her proto-feminist, anti-war, and in a few instances erotic writing is an exception in modern Hungarian literature

Digital Humanities and Publishing a Learned Journal

In his article Digital Humanities and Publishing a Learned Journal Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek discusses digital humanities and the publishing scholarship online in the context of the politics of publishing scholarship specifically as it pertains to humanities. Funding for the publishing of humanities scholarship remains constricted worldwide whether in print or digital and the standard remains to publish journals by subscription fees. Based on his argumentation against the colonialism of knowledge, Tötösy de Zepetnek argues for the publishing of humanities scholarship against subscription-based or author-pay models. Further, he presents suggestions as to the how-s of the founding of a digital humanities journal and suggestions to authors to consider when submitting a paper for publication in a digital journal