'Interested versus disinterested' : can iconography be innocent?

Zsolt Virágos

Zsolt Virágos, Professor of English at the University of Debrecen, is the author of several books such as A négerség és az amerikai irodalom [Blacks in American Literature] (1975), Az amerikai irodalom története [The History of American Literature] (1997), and The Modernists and Others: The American Literary Culture in the Age of the Modernist Revolution (2007), etc. His main areas of professional interest include American social consciousness, the literary history of the U.S.A., the literature of the American South, the culture and literature of the African American community, the literatures of American minorities, stereotypy, myth studies, and, iconography. He is the former President of the Hungarian Society for the Study of English (HUSSE), and the current Chair of the Board of Trustees of the László Országh Award. Email: zk72viragos@yahoo.com