Finnish Fictions 27.4.

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Finnish Fictions 27.4.

• Riikka Rossi Opening of the seminar. Finnish
  Fiction in the Literary Atlas
• A young member of the world literature
• Mikael Agricola, the Bible translator and father
  of the Finnish language (15101557)
• The emergence of Finnish literature in the 19th
  century under the Russian empire - nationalist
  movement, ideas from Germany (G. F. Hegel and J.
  V. Snellman)
• Kalevala (1835) Aleksis Kivi (Seitsemän veljestä
  1870) breakthrough of Finnish literature at the
  end of the 19th century (Realism Naturalism)

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Windows open to Europe...

• Finnish literature and international movements
• Realism Naturalism (Minna Canth) Symbolism
  Decadence (Eino Leino, Otto Manninen) Modernism
  (Edith Södergran) Postmodernism Autofiction
  (Pirkko Saisio, Anja Snellman, Kari Hotakainen)
• But what makes Finnish literature Finnish?
• Mihail Bahtin Literature as a speech communion
  literary works relate to each other by means of
  dialogicity

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Finnishness of Finnish Literature - Some
General Perspectives

• Undeniably original works, such as
• Kalevala - a classic of world literature
  (Tolkien Children of Húrin)
• Finnish Literature and the Creation of National
  Identity
• Benedict Anderson Nations as imagined
  communities
• J. L. Runeberg
• The Heroof Finnish Literature Ordinary Man and
  Common People (Kivi Seitsemän veljestä, Canth,
  Aho Joel Lehtonen Putkinotko, Väinö Linna
  Tuntematon sotilas, Nobelprize-winner F. E.
  Sillanpääs work)