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Gothic Topographies
In demonstrating the global reach of Gothic literatures, this collection takes up the influence of the Gothic mode in literatures that may be geographically remote from one another but still share related issues of minor languages, nation building, place and race. Suggesting that there is a parallel between certain motifs and themes found in the Gothic of the North (Scandinavia, Northern Europe and Canada) and South (Australia, South Africa and the US South), the essays explore the transgressions and confusion of borders and limits, whether they be linguistic, literary, generic, class-based, gendered or sexual. The volume includes essays on a wide diversity of authors and topics: Jan Potocki...
Women Telling Nations
Women Telling Nations highlights how, from the 16th to the 19th centuries, European women, as readers and writers, contributed to the construction of national identities. The book, which presents twenty countries, is divided into four parts. First, we examine how women belonged to nations: they represented territories and political or religious communities in their own style. Second, we deal with the ways in which women wrote the nation: the network of relationships in which they were involved that were not necessarily national or territorial. The legitimation that women writers succeeded in finding is emphasised in the third section, while in the fourth we analyse how and why women were open to the outside world, beyond the country’s borders. Women Telling Nations underlines the quantitative importance of the circulation of these women’s writings and demonstrates the extent as well as the impact of the international cross-fertilisation of nations, especially by and for women: focusing on routes rather than roots.
Kirjailijapoetiikat
The Writer’s Poetics. Poetics as an Approach to an Author’s Body of Work is an introduction to the writer’s poetics as a distinctive research orientation, as well as a collection of case studies focusing on authors working in different eras and languages. While the 20th Century traditions of poetics have produced studies on the textual styles and techniques that characterize the writing of particular authors, the research orientation has not been explicitly defined and sufficiently theorized. The Writer’s Poetics frames the research orientation theoretically, and the 14 case studies making up the chapters demonstrate the diversity of viewpoints available within it. The contributors study authors ranging from 19th Century Finnish-Swedish female writers to 20th Century African-American novelists to postmodernist and contemporary authors of prose and lyric – and to the most successful Finnish rap artists of the 2010’s.
Women's Voices
Finnish women writers from the nineteenth century onwards have dealt with various problems concerning women's daily lives, their rights, their identities and their own voice. And these same questions can still be heard in contemporary women's literature. The articles in "Women's Voices" survey some of the ways in which Finnish female authors from the 1840s to the 1990s have dealt with these questions, and the solutions to these problems they have envisioned in their writing. How has the idea of freedom changed? What has been the relationship between female authors and the women's movement? What happens when female authors gradually become aware of the multiplicity of their identity? How do different literary genres affect the way women write? These are some of the questions focused on in Women's Voices. At the same time the volume presents an overview of the range of approaches to feminist criticism drawn on by Finnish feminist scholars.
Kaskuja
Poggio Bracciolinin latinankielinen Kaskuja (Facetiae) ilmestyi vuonna 1452 ja oli aikansa bestseller. Se on rohkea, hauska ja henkevä kokoelma kaskuja, joilta ei säästynyt kukaan. "Kirjan sivuilla vilisee historiasta tunnettuja ja muita todella eläneitä henkilöitä, varsinkin Poggion aikalaisia, ruhtinaita ja paaveja, pappeja ja munkkeja, iloluontoisia naisia, ystäviä ja vihamiehiä", kirjoittaa teoksen suomentaja Pekka Matilainen. "Eteemme aukeaa elävänä ja rikkaana tuon ajan arki erilaisine ihmistyyppeineen, koko yhteiskunnan kirjo ylhäisistä alhaisiin." FM Pekka Matilainen on valmistunut Helsingin yliopistosta pääaineinaan latina ja Rooman kirjallisuus sekä klassinen kreikka. Hän on saanut tiedonjulkistamisen valtionpalkinnon ja Skepsis ry:n Sokrates-palkinnon kriittisestä journalismista.
Kieliä ja kohtaamisia Turun historiassa
The present volume is a multidisciplinary collection of research articles exploring language use, language contact and multilingualism in the history of Turku, the first town in Finland, founded around the turn of the fourteenth century. Consisting of an introduction by the editors and nine case studies in the fields of linguistics, history, archeology, and literary and cultural studies, the volume participates in a wider discussion on multilingual communities while offering a closer look into linguistic encounters in Turku and its immediate vicinity. The volume covers the period from the Middle Ages (c. 1100–1500) to the latter half of the twentieth century. The case studies illustrate the wide array of languages, linguistic varieties and registers that the inhabitants and travellers used in their daily lives, the specific contexts in which certain languages were used, and the effects of these linguistic encounters at personal, social or institutional levels.
Kaanon ja marginaali
Why the Kalevala and not the Kanteletar? The Kalevala Society’s 101st Yearbook maps the processes of canonizing and marginalizing in traditions, cultural heritage and literature by focusing on the fringes of cultural ideals and norms. How and using which criteria have researchers, artists and materials of cultural production been lifted up or pushed aside? What kind of nations would have emerged if writing the nation had rested on the alternatives: the marginal rather than the canonical genres? A look into the blind spots and fringes of culture and research reveals the endless movement in and between hierarchically positioned spheres of culture. Listening to margins changes not only the canon but also the idea of canon.
Leonna: En skildring ur lifvet
DigiCat Publishing presenterar denna specialutgåva av "Leonna: En skildring ur lifvet" av Charlotta Falkman. DigiCat Publishing betraktar varje skrivet ord som ett arv till mänskligheten. Varje DigiCat-bok har noggrant reproducerats för återpublicering i ett nytt modernt format. Böckerna är tillgängliga i tryck som e-böcker. DigiCat hoppas att ni behandlar detta verk med det erkännande och den vördnad verket förtjänar som en klassiker inom världslitteraturen.
