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Forms of List-Making: Epistemic, Literary, and Visual Enumeration
This open access book attempts to show that an examination of the list’s formal features has the potential to produce genuine insights into the production of knowledge, the poetics of literature and the composition of visual art. Following a conceptual introduction, the twelve single-authored chapters place the list in a variety of well-researched contexts, including ancient Roman historiography, medieval painting, Enlightenment periodicals, nineteenth-century botanical geography, American Beat poetry and contemporary photobooks. With its interdisciplinary approach, this book is a unique contribution to an emerging field dedicated to the study of lists.
Nordic Speculative Fiction
This volume brings together scholarly theories and practices on speculative fiction from the Nordic countries, including Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, that are all rooted in similar values, culture, and history yet are independent and unique societies. The book exhibits both the convergences and the diversity of the Nordics in fiction and fandom as well as in research. It traces the roots of Nordic speculative fiction, how it has developed over time, and how the changes in Nordic environments and societies caused by overhanging shared global issues – such as climate change, mass migration, and technological acceleration – find space in speculative practices. The first of...
Reading Today
New technologies are changing our reading habits. Laptops, e-readers, tablets and other handheld devices supply new platforms for reading, and we must learn to manage them by scrolling, clicking or tapping. Reading Today places reading in current literary and cultural contexts in order to analyse how these contexts challenge our conceptions of who reads, what reading is, how we read, where we read, and for what purposes – and then responds to the questions this analysis raises. Is our reading experience becoming a ‘flat’ one? And does reading in a media environment favour quick reading? Alongside these questions, the contributors unpack emerging strategies of reading.They consider, for example, how paying attention to readers’ emotional reactions as an indispensable component of reading affects our conception of the reading process. Other chapters consider how reading can be explored through such topics as experimental literature, the contemporary encyclopedic novel and the healing power of books.
A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries Since 1975
The Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries Since 1975 brings the series of cultural histories of the avant-garde in the Nordic countries up to the present. It discusses revisions and continuations of historical practices since 1975.
Contemporary Nordic Literature and Spatiality
This open access collection offers a detailed mapping of recent Nordic literature and its different genres (fiction, poetry, and children’s literature) through the perspective of spatiality. Concentrating on contemporary Nordic literature, the book presents a distinctive view on the spatial turn and widens the understanding of Nordic literature outside of canonized authors. Examining literatures by Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, and Finnish authors, the chapters investigate a recurrent theme of social criticism and analyze this criticism against the welfare state and power hierarchies in spatial terms. The chapters explore various narrative worlds and spaces—from the urban to parks and forests, from textual spaces to spatial thematics, studying these spatial features in relation to the problems of late modernity.
Jälleen
JÄLLEEN on juhlakirja Leevi Lehdon 70. syntymäpäivän (23. helmikuuta 2021) kunniaksi. Se sisältää viisitoista puheenvuoroa kirjailija-kääntäjä-kustantajan tuotantoon ja toimintaan syventyneiltä asiantuntijoilta Suomesta ja Yhdysvalloista. Näiden jälkeen tarjotaan vielä kolme aiemmin julkaisematonta tekstiä Lehdolta ja bibliografiaa moninaisesta kirjallisuudesta häneltä ja hänestä. JÄLLEEN. LEEVI LEHTO RELOADEDin kirjoittajina ovat Lehdon ja toimittajien lisäksi Charles Bernstein, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Kristian Blomberg, Teemu Ikonen, Juri Joensuu, Juha-Pekka Kilpiö, Raine Koskimaa, Laura Piippo, Antti Salminen, Riikka Simpura, Miia Toivio, Anna Tomi ja Taneli Viljanen. Leevi Lehto (1951--2019) oli 1967 debytoinut runoilija ja monipuolinen kirjailija, kääntäjä, päätoimittaja, toiminnanjohtaja, kustannustoimittaja, käsitteellistäjä, mahdollistaja, härnääjä, ohjelmoija, järjestäjä, esiintyjä, yrittäjä, ajattelija ja ntamo-kirjatalon (2007--) perustaja.
blue hum
Based in Jyväskylä, Finland, Keijo Virtanen is somewhat of a legend in the Finnish psych scene. His music is often based in ambient and drone, and incorporates – beside of electronic devices – weird traditional folk instruments from around the world. Keijo is also renowned for his throat singing skills, plus – when he’s not throat singing and actually forming words – a strong, nasal voice that makes his songs unique and bizarre. His roots and influences are traditional world music, American Appalachian folk, jazz – and drone. This book offers a representative collection of those ”actually formed words” – 200+ pages of Keijo-in-writing, introduced by ”liner notes” from colleagues from around the world, compiled by Juri Joensuu. ”When I look across the road, where it can take, I see something blue. And I cannot get that view off of my mind. It’s like a flavor or a taste in the memory. It makes me to look for it, to get there, where to get some of it, there where its producer is, or rather, where that maker is going. On the road.” – Keijo
The Experimental Book Object
The Experimental Book Object shows why and how books matter in the 21st century. Digital and audio platforms are commonplace, and other fields of art beyond literature have increasingly embraced books and publication as their medium of choice. Nevertheless, the manifold book object persists and continues to inspire various types of experimentation. This volume sets forth an unprecedented approach where literary and media theory are entangled with design practitioners’ artistic research and process descriptions. By probing the paradigm of the codex, this collection of essays focuses on historical and contemporary experimentation that has challenged what books are and could be from the perspectives of materiality, mediation, and visual and typographic design. Investigations into less-studied areas and cases of performativity demonstrate what experimental books do by interacting with their systemic and cultural environments. The volume offers a multifaceted and multidisciplinary view of the book object, the book design and publishing processes, and their significance in the digital age.
Cultural Identity in Transition
Cultural Identity In Transition Analyses The Challenges That Globalisation And Modernisation Have Brought To Cultural Identity In Recent Years. This Collection Of Articles Highlights Some Of The Central Theoretical Ideas And Models Currently Used In The Analysis Of Cultural Identity In The Social And Cultural Sciences.While The Book S Main Regional Focus Is On Northern Europe, This Is Complemented By Several Case Studies Addressing Issues Of Cultural Identity In Indigenous And Ethnic Communities, In Literary And Artistic Expression, And In Terms Of National Politics Around The World.The Book Discusses In Detail The Questions Like : What Is At Stake In The Global Culture Industry In Terms Of Cultural Identity? How Do The Internet And Information Technology In General Empower Local Communities? What Kinds Of Political Struggles And Conflicts Can Be Associated With The Processes Of Cultural Identity? Cultural Identities Are In Transition, But In What Direction Are They Moving?Cultural Identity In Transition Will Be Essential Reading For University Students And Researchers In Sociology, Anthropology, And Cultural And Literary Studies.
