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Arctic Hysteria and Other Strange Northern Emotions — Case Studies in Finnish Literature
Rossi, Riikka; Kankkunen, Sarianna; Nykänen, Elise
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2024
45,00 € (40,91 € moms 0 %)

This volume opens a new perspective on the thriving area of research on the imagined North by studying emotions in the light of case studies in Finnish literature. It addresses the cultural history of Arctic hysteria and maps other strange emotions depicted...

Artikelnummer 9789518589009
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The Culture of the Finnish Roma
Markkanen, Airi; Åberg, Kai
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2024
45,00 € (40,91 € moms 0 %)

This anthology is a needed collection of chapters intended for the international audience. The editor of the anthology, having participated in many international conferences and seminars, have often been asked: Is there Roma research in Finland? What...

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Artikelnummer 9789518589030
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The Finnish Case System — Cognitive Linguistic Perspectives
Jaakola, Minna; Onikki-Rantajääskö, Tiina
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2023
45,00 € (40,91 € moms 0 %)

The Finnish language is perhaps best known for its rich case system. Depending on the definition of a case, Finnish has at least fourteen, possibly fifteen or even more cases. This volume is the first comprehensive English-language account of the Finnish...

Artikelnummer 9789518586466
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Colonial Aspects of Finnish-Namibian Relations, 1870-1990 — Cultural Change, Endurance and Resistance
Koivunen, Leila; Merivirta, Raita
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2024
45,00 € (40,91 € moms 0 %)

This edited collection re-examines the long history of Finnish-Namibian relations through the lens of colonialism without colonies as well as anti-colonialism. The book argues that although Finland never acquired colonies, Namibia was once treated...

Artikelnummer 9789518588859
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Artikelnummer 9789518588859
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Migrants and Literature in Finland and Sweden
Gröndahl, Satu; Rantonen, Eila
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2018
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Migrants and Literature in Finland and Sweden presents new comparative perspectives on transnational literary studies. This collection provides a contribution to the production of new narratives of the nation...

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Artikelnummer 9789522229922
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The Enemy Within — Homicide and Control in Eastern Finland in the Final Years of Swedish Rule 1748-1808
Koskivirta, Anu
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2003
45,00 € (40,91 € moms 0 %)

This work explores the quantitative and qualitative development of homicide in eastern Finland in the second half of the eighteenth century and the early years of the nineteenth. The area studied comprised northern Savo and northern Karelia in eastern Finland...

Artikelnummer 9789517464741
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Artikelnummer 9789517464741
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Fibula, Fabula, Fact — The Viking Age in Finland
Ahola, Joonas; Frog; Tolley, Clive
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2018
43,00 € (39,09 € moms 0 %)

Were there Vikings in Finland? Fibula, Fabula, Fact - The Viking Age in Finland is intended to provide essential foundations for approaching the Viking Age in Finland. The volume consists of a general introduction followed by nineteen chapters and a closing discussion...

Artikelnummer 9789522226037
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Artikelnummer 9789522226037
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On the Legacy of Lutheranism in Finland — Societal Perspectives
Sinnemäki, Kaius; Portman, Anneli; Tilli, Jouni; Nelson, Robert H.
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2019
45,00 € (40,91 € moms 0 %)

This volume analyses the societal legacy of Lutheranism in Finland by drawing on a multidisciplinary perspective from the social sciences and humanities. Involving researchers from a wide range of such fields has made it possible to provide fresh and...

Artikelnummer 9789518581355
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Artikelnummer 9789518581355
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Personal Agency at the Swedish Age of Greatness 1560-1720
Karonen, Petri; Hakanen, Marko
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2017
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Personal Agency at the Swedish Age of Greatness 1560-1720 provides fresh insights into the state-building process in Sweden. During this transitional period, many far-reaching administrative reforms were carried out, and the Swedish state developed into a prime example of the "power-state...

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Artikelnummer 9789522228826
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On the Border of Language and Dialect
Palander, Marjatta; Riionheimo, Helka; Koivisto, Vesa
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2018
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This volume considers the linguistic borders between a language and a dialect as well as the administrative, cultural, and mental borders that affect the linguistic ones. The articles approach mental borders between dialects, dialect continua, and areas...

Artikelnummer 9789522229168
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Artikelnummer 9789522229168
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Conversation Analytic Perspectives to Digital Interaction — Practices, Resources, and Affordances
Koivisto, Aino; Vepsäläinen, Heidi; Virtanen, Mikko T.
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2023
45,00 € (40,91 € moms 0 %)

When do people greet each other on WhatsApp? How do people start chats on Tinder? How are emotions displayed in video-mediated workplace interaction? How do people converse with a social robot? This volume offers a state-of-the-art collection of article...

Artikelnummer 9789518586312
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Novels, Histories, Novel Nations — Historical Fiction and Cultural Memory in Finland and Estonia
Kaljundi, Linda; Laanes, Eneken; Pikkanen, Ilona
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2015
24,00 € (21,82 € moms 0 %)

Since its emergence along with Western nationalism, historical fiction has been one of the key forms for constructing national histories - and it has not lost its importance even today. This volume highlights the cultural work historical fiction performed in Finland and Estonia ca...

Artikelnummer 9789522226297
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Sociolinguistic Variation in Urban Linguistic Landscapes
Henricson, Sofie; Syrjälä, Väinö; Bagna, Carla; Bellinzona, Martina
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2024
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Urban linguistic landscapes reflect and create sociolinguistic, societal and urban dynamics. This book explores these relations scientifically and, focusing on the linguistic landscapes of selected cities in northern and southern Europe, sheds light on...

Artikelnummer 9789518588705
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Linking Clauses and Actions in Social Interaction
Laury, Ritva; Etelämäki, Marja; Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2017
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This volume is intended as a reader for students and scholars working in the field of grammar and interaction. It deals with ways in which verbal and non-verbal actions are combined and linked in everyday conversation, in institutional contexts, and in written journalism...

Artikelnummer 9789522228581
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The Springs of Democracy — National and Transnational Debates on Constitutional Reform in the British, German, Swedish and Finnish Parliaments, 1917-1919
Ihalainen, Pasi
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2017
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During the First World War, conflicts between the people's sacrifices and their political participation led to crises of parliamentary legitimacy. This volume compares British, German, Swedish and Finnish debates on revolution, rule by the people, democracy...

Artikelnummer 9789522229182
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Continued Violence and Troublesome Pasts — Post-war Europe between the Victors after the Second World War
Kivimäki, Ville; Karonen, Petri
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2017
45,00 € (40,91 € moms 0 %)

In most European countries, the horrific legacy of 1939-1945 has made it difficult to remember the war with much glory. Despite the Anglo-American memory narrative of saving democracy from totalitarianism and the Soviet epic of the Great Patriotic War,...

Artikelnummer 9789522228574
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Artikelnummer 9789522228574
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Kalevipoeg Studies — The Creation and Reception of an Epic
Hasselblatt, Cornelius
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2016
43,00 € (39,09 € moms 0 %)

This is the first English-language monograph on the poem Kalevipoeg (1857-1861), composed by Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald (1803-1882). The poem is over 19,000 lines long, and is known today as the Estonian national epic...

Artikelnummer 9789522227119
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Artikelnummer 9789522227119
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Dynamic Finland — The Political System and the Welfare State
Pesonen, Pertti; Riihinen, Olavi
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2002
45,00 € (40,91 € moms 0 %)

Finland celebrated its 85th year of independence in 2002. It is one of the thirteen countries of the world that have preserved their democracy uninterrupted since the First World War. Despite its modest origins and difficult wartime experiences, this...

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Artikelnummer 9789517464260
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Modernisation in Russia since 1900
Kangaspuro, Markku; Smith, Jeremy
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2006
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Modernisation has been a constant theme in Russian history at least since Peter the Great launched a series of initiatives aimed at closing the economic, technical and cultural gap between Russia and the more 'advanced' countries of Europe...

Artikelnummer 9789517468541
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Artikelnummer 9789517468541
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Genre -Text - Interpretation — Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Folklore and Beyond
Koski, Kaarina; Savolainen, Ulla; Frog, Mr
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2016
47,00 € (42,73 € moms 0 %)

This book presents current discussions on the concept of genre. It introduces innovative, multidisciplinary approaches to contemporary and historical genres, their roles in cultural discourse, how they change, and their relations to each other...

Artikelnummer 9789522227386
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Artikelnummer 9789522227386
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The Irish Folklore Commission 1935-1970 — History, ideology, methodology
Briody, Mícheál
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2007
32,00 € (29,09 € moms 0 %)

Between 1935 and 1970 the Irish Folklore Commission (Coimisiun Bealoideasa Eireann), under-funded and at great personal cost to its staff, assembled one of the world's largest folklore collections. The cultural, linguistic, political and ideological factors...

Artikelnummer 9789517469470
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Artikelnummer 9789517469470
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Names in Focus — An Introduction to Finnish Onomastics
Ainiala, Terhi; Saarelma, Minna; Sjöblom, Paula
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2018
44,00 € (40,00 € moms 0 %)

Names in Focus delves deep into the vast field of Finnish onomastics, covering place names, personal names, animal names, commercial names and names in literature. It provides the history and current trends in this area of research, and also supplements...

Artikelnummer 9789522223876
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Artikelnummer 9789522223876
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Noble conceptions of politics in eighteenth-century Sweden (ca 1740-1790)
Wolff, Charlotta
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2008
29,00 € (26,36 € moms 0 %)

Noble conceptions of politics in eighteenth-century Sweden (ca 1740-1790) is a study of how the Swedish nobility articulated its political ideals, self-images and loyalties during the Age of Liberty and under the rule of Gustav III...

Artikelnummer 9789522220929
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Artikelnummer 9789522220929
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Performative Histories, Foundational Fictions — Gender and Sexuality in Niskavuori Films
Koivunen, Anu
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2003
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Films are essential to national imagination and promotional publicity markets "domestic films" not only as entertaining, exciting, or moving, but also as topical and relevant in different ways. When assessing new films, reviewers make reference to other...

Artikelnummer 9789517465441
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Artikelnummer 9789517465441
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Oral Tradition and Book Culture
Anttonen, Pertti; Forselles, Cecilia af; Salmi-Niklander, Kirsti
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2018
45,00 € (40,91 € moms 0 %)

A new interdisciplinary interest has risen to study interconnections between oral tradition and book culture. In addition to the use and dissemination of printed books, newspapers etc., book culture denotes manuscript media and the circulation of written...

Artikelnummer 9789518580075
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Artikelnummer 9789518580075
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Mysterious Minds — The Making of Private and Collective Consciousness in Marja-Liisa Vartio's Novels
Nykänen, Elise
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2017
45,00 € (40,91 € moms 0 %)

Marja-Liisa Vartio (1924-1966) is considered one of the foremost innovators of consciousness representation in Finnish post-war modernism. Mysterious Minds, the first study to examine this subject in depth, explores the portrayal of fictional minds in her novels...

Artikelnummer 9789522228642
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Artikelnummer 9789522228642
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Helsinki in Early Twentieth-Century Literature — Urban Experiences in Finnish Prose Fiction 1890–1940
Ameel, Lieven
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2014
45,00 € (40,91 € moms 0 %)

Literary Helsinki: a city of leisure and light, divided along the fault lines of gender, class and language; a dizzying and dazzling threshold of modernity; alienating, mesmerizing and endearing. This first monograph to examine experiences of Helsinki...

Artikelnummer 9789522225481
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Artikelnummer 9789522225481
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Responsibility and Language Practices in Place
Siragusa, Laura; Ferguson, Jenanne K.
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2020
45,00 € (40,91 € moms 0 %)

Responsibility and Language Practices in Place investigates 'responsibility' in and through language practices as inspired by the roots of the (English) word itself: the ability to respond, or mount a response to a situation at hand...

Artikelnummer 9789518582079
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Artikelnummer 9789518582079
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Literacy Skills as Local Intangible Capital — The History of a Rural Lending Library c. 1860 - 1920
Kotilainen, Sofia
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2016
47,00 € (42,73 € moms 0 %)

This book studies the "grey area" of the success story of rural lending libraries in the Nordic countries through the activities of people's libraries in one area of Central Finland, in the parish of Kivijärvi and its neighbouring parishes...

Artikelnummer 9789522227393
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Artikelnummer 9789522227393
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Peasants, Pilgrims, and Sacred Promises — Ritual and the Supernatural in Orthodox Karelian Folk Religion
Stark, Laura
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2002
45,00 € (40,91 € moms 0 %)

Lying on the border between eastern and western Christendom, Orthodox Karelia preserved its unique religious culture into the 19th and 20th centuries, when it was described and recorded by Finnish and Karelian folklore collectors...

Artikelnummer 9789517463669
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Artikelnummer 9789517463669
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Dwelling in Political Landscapes — Contemporary Anthropological Perspectives
Lounela, Anu; Berglund, Eeva; Kallinen, Timo
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2019
45,00 € (40,91 € moms 0 %)

Dwelling in Political Landscapes contributes to the anthropology of landscape and the field of political ecology. Environments change at speeds never before experienced. Massive species loss is just one transformation affecting life forms and their interactions,...

Artikelnummer 9789518580877
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Artikelnummer 9789518580877
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Tradition through Modernity — Postmodernism and the Nation-State in Folklore Scholarship
Anttonen, Pertti J.
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2005
45,00 € (40,91 € moms 0 %)

In their study of social practices deemed traditional, scholars tend to use the concept and idea of tradition as an element of meaning in the practices under investigation. But just whose meaning is it? Is it a meaning generated by those who study tradition...

Artikelnummer 9789517466653
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Artikelnummer 9789517466653
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Novel Districts — Critical Readings of Monika Fagerholm
Malmio, Kristina; Österlund, Mia
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2016
45,00 € (40,91 € moms 0 %)

Finland-Swedish writer Monika Fagerholm is one of the most important contemporary Nordic authors; she is known for her experimental style and visionary descriptions of girlhood. Novel Districts. Critical Readings of Monika Fagerholm is the first book to study Fagerholm's works...

Artikelnummer 9789522227560
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Artikelnummer 9789522227560
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Nodes of Contemporary Finnish Literature
Kirstinä, Leena
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2012
45,00 € (40,91 € moms 0 %)

This book examines phenomena from Finnish and Finnish-Swedish literature written in the years between the 1980s and the first decade of the new millennium. Its objective is to study this interesting era of literary history in Finland and to sketch some...

Artikelnummer 9789522223593
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Artikelnummer 9789522223593
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Storied and Supernatural Places — Studies in Spatial and Social Dimensions of Folklore and Sagas
Valk, Ülo; Sävborg, Daniel
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2018
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This collection of articles addresses the narrative construction of places, landscapes and their supernatural dimensions, the relationship between tradition communities and their environments, and the spatial conditions for encounters with the supernatural...

Artikelnummer 9789522229175
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Artikelnummer 9789522229175
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Edhina Ekogidho - Names as Links — The Encounter between African and European Anthroponymic Systems among the Ambo People in Namibia
Saarelma-Maunumaa, Minna
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2003
45,00 € (40,91 € moms 0 %)

What are the most popular names of the Ambo people in Namibia? Why do so many Ambos have Finnish first names? What do the African names of these people mean? Why is the namesake so important in Ambo culture? How did the nation's long struggle for independence...

Artikelnummer 9789517465298
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Artikelnummer 9789517465298
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Lake Ladoga — The Coastal History of the Greatest Lake in Europe
Lähteenmäki, Maria; Land, Isaac
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2023
45,00 € (40,91 € moms 0 %)

This multidisciplinary volume offers a spectacular view and the first overall presentation of the history of Lake Ladoga, of the greatest lake in Europe. The focus of the study is on the northern parts of the shores of the lake, which belonged to Finland's rule between 1812 and 1944...

Artikelnummer 9789518586282
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Metaliterary Layers in Finnish Literature
Hägg, Samuli; Sevänen, Erkki; Turunen, Risto
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2008
29,00 € (26,36 € moms 0 %)

In international research, metafictionality and other metaliterary features have typically been regarded as phenomena related to postmodernist fiction, in particular - Metaliterary Layers in Finnish Literature, however, discusses the metalayers of Finnish...

Artikelnummer 9789522220639
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Artikelnummer 9789522220639
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Fashion Meets Socialism — Fashion industry in the Soviet Union after the Second World War
Gronow, Jukka; Zhuravlev, Sergey
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2015
45,00 € (40,91 € moms 0 %)

The Soviet Union was not renowned for its fashionable clothing. However, after the World War II the Soviet Government opened several parallel organizations of fashion design with fashion houses and ateliers all over the country...

Artikelnummer 9789522226655
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Artikelnummer 9789522226655
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Mythic Discourses — Studies in Uralic Traditions
Frog; Siikala, Anna-Leena; Stepanova, Eila
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2012
48,00 € (43,64 € moms 0 %)

Mythic discourses in the present day show how vernacular heritage continues to function and be valuable through emergent interpretations and revaluations. At the same time, continuities in mythic images, motifs, myths and genres reveal the longue durée of mythologies and their transformations...

Artikelnummer 9789522223760
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Artikelnummer 9789522223760
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The Emergence of Finnish Book and Reading Culture in the 1700s
Forselle, Cecilia af; Laine, Tuija
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2011
31,00 € (28,18 € moms 0 %)

Book culture has emerged as an extremely dynamic and border-crossing field of research, internationally and in Finland. The editors and most of the writers of this book were members of the organizing and program committees of the 18th Annual Conference...

Artikelnummer 9789522222411
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Artikelnummer 9789522222411
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Talk in Interaction — Comparative Dimensions
Haakana, Markku; Laakso, Minna; Lindstrom, Jan
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2019
45,00 € (40,91 € moms 0 %)

Talk in interaction - Comparative dimensions is a collection of current conversation analytical work on interactional practices. How do speakers correct the errors made by other speakers? How is disappointment expressed in interaction? How are disputes...

Artikelnummer 9789522221346
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On toponymic constructions as an alternative to naming patterns in describing Finnish lake names
Leino, Antti
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2007
29,00 € (26,36 € moms 0 %)

Monitieteinen artikkeliväitöskirja yhdistää nimistöntutkimukseen tietojenkäsittelytieteen menetelmiä ja tarkastelee tuloksia kognitiivisen kielentutkimuksen kautta. Tutkimus lähtee peruskartan järvennimien analyysistä, jonka tarkoituksena on löytää säännönmukaisesti...

Artikelnummer 9789517468930
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Narrating, Doing, Experiencing — Nordic Folkloristic Perspectives
Kaivola-Bregenhoj, Annikki; Klein, Barbro; Palmenfelt, Ulf
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2006
45,00 € (40,91 € moms 0 %)

How do people tell of experiences, things and events that mean a lot to them and are unforgettable? Eight Nordic folklorists here examine personal experience stories and the way they are narrated in an attempt to gain an understanding of the people behind...

Artikelnummer 9789517467261
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Representations of Finnishness in Sweden
Weckström, Lotta
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2010
34,00 € (30,91 € moms 0 %)

More than half a million Swedes - one in twenty - is of Finnish descent. This book explores Finnishness, multilingualism and identities of young people with Finnish background in Sweden. What does it mean to grow up in a Finnish family in Sweden? Who...

Artikelnummer 9789522223265
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Artikelnummer 9789522223265
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The Limits of Patriarchy — How Female Networks of Pilfering and Gossip Sparked the First Debates on Rural Gender Rights in the 19th-Century Finnish-Language Press
Stark, Laura
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2011
34,00 € (30,91 € moms 0 %)

In the mid-19th century, letters to newspapers in Finland began to condemn a practice known as home thievery, in which farm mistresses pilfered goods from their farms to sell behind the farm master's back...

Artikelnummer 9789522223272
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Hidden Rituals and Public Performances — Traditions and Belonging among the Post-Soviet Khanty, Komi and Udmurts
Siikala, Anna-Leena; Oleg, Ulyashev
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2011
34,00 € (30,91 € moms 0 %)

Why are Khanty shamans still active? What are the folklore collectives of Komi? Why are the rituals of Udmurts performed at cultural festivals? In their insightful ethnographic study Anna-Leena Siikala and Oleg Ulyashev attempt to answer such questions...

Artikelnummer 9789522223074
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Artikelnummer 9789522223074
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Across the Oceans — Development of Overseas Business Inforrmation Transmission 1815-1875
Laakso, Seija-Riitta
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2007
32,00 € (29,09 € moms 0 %)

In the early 19th century, the only way to transmit information was to send letters across the oceans by sailing ships or across land by horse and coach. Growing world trade created a need and technological development introduced options to improve general information transmission...

Artikelnummer 9789517469043
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Artikelnummer 9789517469043
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Riddles — Perspektives on the use, function andchange in a folklore genre
Kaivola-Bergenhöj, Annikki
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2001
45,00 € (40,91 € moms 0 %)

Riddles are a journey into a fascinating world rich in delightful metaphors and ambiguity. This book is based on material drawn from all over the world and analyses both traditional true riddles and contemporary joking questions...

Artikelnummer 9789517460194
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Artikelnummer 9789517460194
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Rhetorics of Nordic Democracy
Kurunmäki, Jussi; Strang, Johan
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2010
32,00 € (29,09 € moms 0 %)

Democracy is today a concept that is overwhelmingly positively evaluated almost everywhere. A lot has been written about socio-economic and cultural backgrounds of democratic regimes as well as their institutional settings...

Artikelnummer 9789522222282
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Artikelnummer 9789522222282
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Aino Kallas — Negotiations with Modernity
Kurvet-Käosaar, Leena; Rojola, Lea
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2011
32,00 € (29,09 € moms 0 %)

The collection, first one ever on Aino Kallas in English, highlights her significance to the artistic and intellectual horizons of modernity of Finland and Estonia as well as those of Scandinavia and Europe...

Artikelnummer 9789522222602
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Artikelnummer 9789522222602
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Minimal reference — The use of pronouns in Finnish and Estonian discourse
Laury, Ritva
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2005
45,00 € (40,91 € moms 0 %)

This book presents some of the most recent research on Finnish and Estonian pronouns and other minimal forms of reference. The articles deal with features particular to the pronoun systems of Finnic languages, such as logophoricity and the use of demonstratives...

Artikelnummer 9789517466363
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Artikelnummer 9789517466363
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Sport, Recreation and Green Space in the European City
Clark, Peter; Niemi, Marjaana; Niemelä, Jari
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2009
32,00 € (29,09 € moms 0 %)

Green space has become a major issue in European cities in recent years as a result of enhanced environmental awareness, urban marketing, planning policy and growing population densities. Up to now, however, the subject of sports areas and grounds has...

Artikelnummer 9789522221629
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Artikelnummer 9789522221629
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Moving in the USSR — Western anomalies and Northern wilderness
Hakamies, Pekka
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2005
45,00 € (40,91 € moms 0 %)

This book deals with 20th century resettlements in the western areas of the former USSR, in particular the territory of Karelia that was ceded by Finland in the WWII, Podolia in the Ukraine, and the North-West periphery of Russia in the Kola peninsula...

Artikelnummer 9789517466950
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Artikelnummer 9789517466950
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Divine Rulers in a Secular State
Kallinen, Timo
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2016
43,00 € (39,09 € moms 0 %)

In present-day Africa chiefs interact fluently with modern states, international organizations, and business corporations, and traditional chieftaincy is perceived essentially as a secular institution...

Artikelnummer 9789522226822
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Artikelnummer 9789522226822
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Rhyme and Rhyming in Verbal Art, Language, and Song
Sykäri, Venla; Fabb, Nigel
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2022
45,00 € (40,91 € moms 0 %)

This interdisciplinary collection explores the forms and aesthetics of rhyme in a variety of languages and from a variety of perspectives. A wide-ranging introduction that ends with a list and associated bibliography of rhyming traditions of the world is followed by thirteen chapters...

Artikelnummer 9789518585872
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Artikelnummer 9789518585872
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Where is the Field? — The Experience of Migration Viewed through the Prism of Ethnographic Fieldwork
Hirvi, Laura; Snellman, Hanna
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2012
44,00 € (40,00 € moms 0 %)

The book sheds light on the experiences of immigrants in different parts of the world and other insightful reflections on the art of carrying out fieldwork in the present day, when the task of locating the 'field' seems to present a particular challenge for researchers...

Artikelnummer 9789522223883
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Artikelnummer 9789522223883
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Beyond the horizon — essays on myth, history, travel and society
Sather, Clifford; Kaartinen, Timo
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2008
29,00 € (26,36 € moms 0 %)

Artikkelikokoelman lähtökohtana on ajatus kulttuurista pragmaattisten kontekstien ja kokemuksen tasojen välisiä suhteita jäsentävänä maailmankuvana. Artikkelit tarkastelevat etnografisten esimerkkien valossa, mikä määrittää kunkin yhteiskunnan horisonttia...

Artikelnummer 9789517469852
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Artikelnummer 9789517469852
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Strategies of sanity and survival — religious responses to natural disasters in the middle ages
Hanska, Jussi
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2002
45,00 € (40,91 € moms 0 %)

Natural disasters have long been a neglected subject in the study of history. At most they have been casually mentioned as a background material for political or social history. During the 90s this state of affairs has slowly began to change...

Artikelnummer 9789517463577
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Artikelnummer 9789517463577
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Myth and Mentality
Siikala, Anna-Leena
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2019
45,00 € (40,91 € moms 0 %)

The recent fascination in Finnish folklore studies with popular thought and the values and emotions encoded in oral tradition began with the realisation that the vast collections of the Finnish folklore archives still have much to offer the modern-day researcher...

Artikelnummer 9789517463713
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Artikelnummer 9789517463713
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On foreign ground — moving between countries and categories
Karttunen, Marie-Louise; Ruckenstein, Minna
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2007
29,00 € (26,36 € moms 0 %)

The essays in this collection explore classical anthropological questions in modern sites, from Ghana to Karelia, from India to Italy, from Kuala Lumpur to St. Petersburg. They examine change and continuity through the lens of memory and sense of place,...

Artikelnummer 9789517469142
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Artikelnummer 9789517469142
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Transnational Death
Saramo, Samira; Koskinen-Koivisto, Eerika; Snellman, Hanna
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2019
45,00 € (40,91 € moms 0 %)

Transnational Death brings together eleven cutting-edge articles from the emerging field of transnational death studies. The collection highlights European, Asian, North American, and Middle Eastern perspectives, and reflects on people's changing experiences...

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Artikelnummer 9789518581348
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Genetic Criticism in Motion — New Perspectives on Manuscript Studies
Katajamäki, Sakari; Pulkkinen, Veijo
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2023
45,00 € (40,91 € moms 0 %)

Genetic criticism investigates creative processes by analysing manuscripts and other archival sources. It sheds light on authors' working practices and the ways works are developed on the writer's desk or in the artist's studio...

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Artikelnummer 9789518588552
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Her Own Worth — Negotiations of Subjectivity in the Life Narrative of a Female Labourer
Koskinen-Koivisto, Eerika
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2014
43,00 € (39,09 € moms 0 %)

This book opens up a window on the life of a female labourer who lived and worked in a small ironworks village in central Finland. Her life touches upon many of the core aspects of 20th-century social change in Finland: increasing educational opportunities,...

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Artikelnummer 9789522226099
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Shattering Minds — Experiences of Mental Illness in Modernist Finnish Literature
Ovaska, Anna
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2023
45,00 € (40,91 € moms 0 %)

Shattering Minds is the first broad study on representations of mental illness in modernist Finnish literature. Through four case studies, it shows how in modernist texts mental suffering is not understood as something that is "inside" a person's mind...

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Artikelnummer 9789518586374
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Touching Things — Ethnological Aspects of Modern Material Culture
Korkiakangas, Pirjo; Lappi, Tiina-Riitta; Niskanen, Heli
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2008
29,00 € (26,36 € moms 0 %)

Material culture is something we can touch and can be touched by. It is simultaneously concrete artefacts and expression of values produced and shared by humans. But what is modern material culture like? Material culture has always played an essential role in ethnological studies...

Artikelnummer 9789522220912
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Artikelnummer 9789522220912
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Versification — Metrics in Practice
Frog; Grünthal, Satu; Kallio, Kati; Niemi, Jarkko
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2021
45,00 € (40,91 € moms 0 %)

Versification describes the marriage of language and poetic form through which poetry is produced. Formal principles, such as metre, alliteration, rhyme, or parallelism, take precedence over syntax and prosody, resulting in expressions becoming organised as verse rather than prose...

Artikelnummer 9789518584189
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Artikelnummer 9789518584189
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Memories of My Town — The Identities of Town Dwellers and their Places in Three Finnish Towns
Åström, Anna-Maria; Korkiakangas, Pirjo; Olsson, Pia
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2004
45,00 € (40,91 € moms 0 %)

The volume Memories of my Town is an exploration into how town dwellers experience their environment in a complicated way .As people in urban milieus relate themselves to the environment, this takes place on many levels, where especially the time level becomes problematic...

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Artikelnummer 9789517464338
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Beyond the Horizon — Essays on Myth, History, Travel and Society
Sather, Clifford; Kaartinen, Timo
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2018
45,00 € (40,91 € moms 0 %)

Society is never just a localized aggregate of people but exists by virtue of its members' narrative and conceptual awareness of other times and places. In Jukka Siikala's work this idea evolves into a broad ethnographic and theoretical interest in worlds...

Artikelnummer 9789518580686
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Artikelnummer 9789518580686
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Identities in Practice — A Trans-Atlantic Ethnography of Sikh Immigrants in Finland and in California
Hirvi, Laura
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2013
44,00 € (40,00 € moms 0 %)

Identities in Practice draws a nuanced picture of how the experience of migration affects the process through which Sikhs in Finland and California negotiate their identities. What makes this study innovative with regard to the larger context of migration...

Artikelnummer 9789522224705
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Artikelnummer 9789522224705
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Gendered Rural Spaces
Olsson, Pia; Ruotsala, Helena
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2009
28,00 € (25,45 € moms 0 %)

Rural spaces are connected with different cultural, economic, social and political codes and meanings. In this book these meanings are analysed through gender. The articles concretely show the process of producing gender and the ways in which accepted...

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Artikelnummer 9789522221544
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Defining Self — Essays on emergent identities in Russia Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries
Branch, Michael
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2009
36,00 € (32,73 € moms 0 %)

Kansainvälisen tutkijakaartin artikkelit tarkastelevat identiteetin muotoutumista Venäjällä, yhdessä maailman suurimmista monikansallisista valtioista. Teoksessa kuvaillaan, miten identiteettien moninaisuus alkoi näkyä jo Venäjän keisarikunnan aikana,...

Artikelnummer 9789522220332
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Artikelnummer 9789522220332
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Handwritten Newspapers — An Alternative Medium during the Early Modern and Modern Periods
Droste, Heiko; Salmi-Niklander, Kirsti
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2019
45,00 € (40,91 € moms 0 %)

This book is the first edited volume focusing on handwritten newspapers as an alternative medium from a wide interdisciplinary and international perspective. The primary focus is on handwritten newspapers as a social practice...

Artikelnummer 9789518581560
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Artikelnummer 9789518581560
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Registers of Communication
Agha, Asif; Frog
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2015
45,00 € (40,91 € moms 0 %)

In any society, communicative activities are organized into models of conduct that differentiate specific social practices from each other and enable people to communicate with each other in ways distinctive to those practices...

Artikelnummer 9789522226730
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Artikelnummer 9789522226730
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White Field, Black Seeds — Nordic Literacy Practices in the Long Nineteenth Century
Kuismin, Anna; Driscoll, M.J.
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2013
24,00 € (21,82 € moms 0 %)

White field, black seeds - who can sow? Although the riddle from which this these words are taken comes from oral tradition, it refers to the ability to write, a skill which in most Nordic countries was not regarded as necessary for everyone...

Artikelnummer 9789522224446
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Artikelnummer 9789522224446
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Changing Scenes — Encounters between European and Finnish Fin de Siècle
Lyytikäinen, Pirjo
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2003
45,00 € (40,91 € moms 0 %)

Six articles in Changing scenes represent the ongoing reassessment of fin de siecle literature in Finnish research. The period was seen in earlier research as something of a national renaissance or golden age and interpreted in the light of its national symbols and meanings...

Artikelnummer 9789517464390
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Artikelnummer 9789517464390
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Words as Events — Cretan Mandinádes in Performance and Composition
Sykäri, Venla
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2011
29,00 € (26,36 € moms 0 %)

Words as Events introduces the tradition of short, communicative rhyming couplets, the mantinádes, as still sung and recited in a variety of performance situations on the island of Crete. Recently, these poems have also entered modern mass media and they...

Artikelnummer 9789522222619
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Artikelnummer 9789522222619
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Registers of Communication
Agha, Asif; Frog
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2018
45,00 € (40,91 € moms 0 %)

In any society, communicative activities are organized into models of conduct that differentiate specific social practices from each other and enable people to communicate with each other in ways distinctive to those practices...

Artikelnummer 9789518580174
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Artikelnummer 9789518580174
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Passages Westward
Lähteenmäki, Maria; Snellman, Hanna
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2018
45,00 € (40,91 € moms 0 %)

The West has always been a resource for the Finns. Scholars, artists and other professionals have sought contacts from Europe throughout the centuries. The Finnish experience in Western Europe and the New World is a story of migrant laborers, expatriates and specialists working abroad...

Artikelnummer 9789518580655
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Artikelnummer 9789518580655
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