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oapen-20.500.12657-308852024-03-25T09:51:43Z Novels, Histories, Novel Nations Kaljundi, Linda Laanes, Eneken Pikkanen, Ilona literature historical plays literary research collective memory language historical novels Estonia Estonian language Finland Soviet Union thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DN Northern Europe, Scandinavia::1DNF Finland thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DT Eastern Europe::1DTE Estonia thema EDItEUR::F Fiction and Related items::FB Fiction: general and literary::FBA Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary thema EDItEUR::F Fiction and Related items::FB Fiction: general and literary::FBC Classic fiction: general and literary "This volume addresses the prominent, and in many ways highly similar, role that historical fiction has played in the formation of the two neighbouring ‘young nations’, Finland and Estonia. It gives a multi-sided overview of the function of the historical novel during different periods of Finnish and Estonian history from the 1800s until the present day, and it provides detailed close-readings of selected authors and literary trends in their social, political and cultural contexts. This book addresses nineteenth-century ‘fictional foundations’, historical fiction of the new nation states in the interwar period as well as post-Second World War Soviet Estonian novels and modern historiographic metafiction. The overall focus is on traditions of writing rather than on isolated highpoints, on chains of transnational influences and on narrative elements that recur both synchronically and diachronically. The volume shows historical fiction prefigured many narratives, tropes, heroes and events that academic history writing later adopted. The comparison of the two literary traditions also opens up a much broader view of how historical novels narrate the nation. While existing explorations of historical fiction have mostly been written from the perspective of the old and great nations, this book shows that the traditions of the young nations ‘without history’ often challenge many mainstream views on the genre." 2018-01-08 23:55 2017-12-01 23:55:55 2018-01-08 00:00:00 2020-04-01T13:16:53Z 2020-04-01T13:16:53Z 2015 book 641488 OCN: 1030820289 0355-8924;1458-526X 9789522227461;9789522227607 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30885 eng Studia Fennica Historica application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 641488.pdf https://doi.org/10.21435/sfh.19 Finnish Literature Society / SKS 10.21435/sfh.19 10.21435/sfh.19 51db0f72-616d-4d86-b847-ade19380e08f 7f68f45f-a677-4ca9-a69c-989c298c9cf6 9789522227461;9789522227607 19 345 Helsinki Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation and SKS open access
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"This volume addresses the prominent, and in many ways highly similar, role that historical fiction has played in the formation of the two neighbouring ‘young nations’, Finland and Estonia. It gives a multi-sided overview of the function of the historical novel during different periods of Finnish and Estonian history from the 1800s until the present day, and it provides detailed close-readings of selected authors and literary trends in their social, political and cultural contexts. This book addresses nineteenth-century ‘fictional foundations’, historical fiction of the new nation states in the interwar period as well as post-Second World War Soviet Estonian novels and modern historiographic metafiction. The overall focus is on traditions of writing rather than on isolated highpoints, on chains of transnational influences and on narrative elements that recur both synchronically and diachronically. The volume shows historical fiction prefigured many narratives, tropes, heroes and events that academic history writing later adopted. The comparison of the two literary traditions also opens up a much broader view of how historical novels narrate the nation. While existing explorations of historical fiction have mostly been written from the perspective of the old and great nations, this book shows that the traditions of the young nations ‘without history’ often challenge many mainstream views on the genre."
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