“Pulmasekeldused”
„Rootsi Hamlet“ Stig Dagerman (1923–1954) oli kirjanik, keda iseloomustab kompromissitus, see tähendab üks neist kirjanikest, kelle elu ja kirjanduse vahele on pea võimatu piiri tõmmata. Tema kirjutamine algas varases teismeeas, kui ta teada sai, et tema vanaisa, kelle talus oli ta veetnud oma esimesed üheksa eluaastat, ühe külahullu poolt surnuks oli pussitatud. Just siis tundis […]
“Rünnaku eel”
Jätkusõja alates valmistus Soome Karjala kannast tagasi vallutama. Rünnakut valmistati ette, saates Karjala kannasele kaugluureüksusi koguma andmeid vaenlase vägede grupeeringute kohta ja häirima transpordiühendusi. Esimene neist kaugüksustest oli üksus Tolvanen. Missioonile saadeti kaheksa Karjala kannasel üles kasvanud noort meest, kes naasid mööda metsi oma kodukanti – seekord relvastatult. „Rünnaku eel“ räägib nende loo. Raamat põhineb […]
“Pöidlaküüdi reisijuht galaktikas”
„Pöidlaküüdi reisijuht Galaktikas“ on popkultuuri vaieldamatu klassika. Arthur Denti galaktilised seiklused ja äpardused on paelunud uudishimulikke hingi üle terve maailma. See ülipopulaarne kultusteos saadab loogika joonelt orbiidile, mängib füüsikaseadustega ja keerab aja ümber sõrme. Arthur Denti jaoks oli see täiesti tavaline neljapäeva pärastlõuna, kuni tuldi tema maja maha lõhkuma. Üsna pea pärast seda lasti õhku […]
“Hea uus ilm”
Maailmakontrolörid on loonud ideaalühiskonna, kus geenitehnoloogia, ajupesu ja mitmekülgsete naudingute osav kasutamine on teinud inimestest rahulolevad tarbijad. Tugevad tunded ja ihad on alla surutud rahustavate mantrate abil, nagu näiteks „Tänapäeval on kõik õnnelikud“ ja „Kõik kuuluvad kõigile“. Üksnes psühholoog Bernard Marx vaevleb seletamatus vabanemise igatsuses. Ehk võiks tema kannatusi leevendada käik ühte vähestest säilinud metsikutest […]
“Neem”
2017. aasta ilukirjanduse Finlandia auhinna pälvinud romaan „Neem” jutustab meile soome rahva ajaloo ehk nn soomeliku vaimsuse kujunemiskäigu ja tagamaad. Autor Juha Hurme alustab kosmilisest Suurest Paugust ja rändab läbi 14 miljardi aasta kuni 19. sajandi esimese kümnendini, et näidata, kui mitmekesisest ainesest koosneb ühe rahva iseolemine. Lugeja ees on terve maailma suvaliste rõhuasetustega kultuurilugu. […]
“Neli päevaloojakut. Feliks Õnnelik”
„Nelja päevaloojaku“ ja „Feliks Õnneliku“ kujul on siin lugeja ees uues kuues kaks iseloomulikku pärli armastatud soome sõnameistri arvukaist lühiromaanidest. Kummalgi neist on Waltari romaanide hulgas oma eriline, peaaegu intiimne koht. Üks võlub poeetilise ja romantiliselt mängleva sümboolikaga, teine üllatab halastamatult tõsimeelse realismiga. „Neli päevaloojakut“ on omaette võrgutav fantaasia ehk romaan romaanist ehk „Sinuhe“ tööpäevik, […]
“Lugu kassist, kes püüdis päästa raamatuid”
Ood raamatutele, kassidele ja inimestele, kes neid armastavad. Keskkoolipoiss Rintarō Natsuki armastab aega veeta oma vanaisa raamatuäris raamatute seltsis. Talle ei meeldi koolis käia, seepärast teeb ta koolist tihti poppi. Koolikaaslased kutsuvad teda hikikomori’ks – need on Jaapani noored, kes sulguvad oma tuppa ja keelduvad igasugusest suhtlusest väljaspool koduseinu. See on küll tõsi, et Rintarōle […]
“Moral Fictions. Tamil Folktales from Oral Tradition”
1S FANTASY the defining element in fairy tales? This question is the starting point for Stuart Blackbum’s study of Tamil oral tales. Having collected over 300 tales, 100 of which are translated in this book, he concludes that although fantasy, and humour, are present, at the core of the tales lies a moral vision in […]
“The Narrative World of Finnish Fairy Tales. Structure, Agency, and Evaluation in Southwest Finnish Folktales”
Finnish fairy taies represent the northern branch of the Western European fairy-tale tradition. Although Finnish epic folklore and mythology have been objects of great research interest, Finnish fairy taies have been studied surprisingly little. This study answers not only methodological but also the most important empirical questions, such as: what are the themes, plots and […]
“Guileless Indigenes and Hidden Passion. Descriptions of Ob-Ugrians and Samoyeds through the Centuries”
This monograph is aimed for discussing the views of the character of the Khanty, Mansi and Nenets by authors of different periods. Changes of general ideas about the inhabitants of the Arctic has had a remarkable, albeit often concealed, roie in the development of the research on northern peoples. The author examines the image of […]
“Thou Fearful Guest. Addressing the past in four tales in Flateyjarbók”
A STRANGER APPEARS at the court of a Norwegian king known best for bringing Christianity to the North. Variations of this seene appear four times in the fourteenth-century manuseript Flateyjarbok. Thou Fearful Guest analyzes how these episodes ereate meaning by their connections to custom, law, myth, diseourses of historical and spiritual truth, typological understandings of […]
“Attitudes and Interpretations in Comparative Religion”
WHATIS the attitude of the scholar of Comparative Religion to religion and religiosity? What is the specific method in Comparative Religion? Does the study of religions differ from other corresponding disciplines? The present volume tries to answer these questions on the basis of fieldwork among Sinhalese Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka and Orthodox monks and […]
“From Shaman to Saint. Interpretive strategies in the study of Buile Shuibhne”
This study charts the ways in which Buile Shuibhne has been interpreted in twentieth-century scholarship, by paying particular attention to the religious allegorical readings of the text. This examination of four prevalent interpretative frameworks ‒ historical, pre-Christian, and anthropological ‒ relates theoretical conceptions of literary theory, comparative religion and historiography to the study of medieval […]
“The Holy Mountain. Studies on Upper Altay Oral Poetry”
Harvilahti, Lauri in collaboration with Zoja Sergeevna Kazagaceva The aim of this study is to achieve a synthesis in forming a new overall view of the stylistic-poetic and structural devices used to produce the archaic mythical and epic cultural tradition of the Upper Altay region. Attention is also being paid to the inherent ethnic nature […]
“Exploring the Gardens of Delights. Essays in Bosch’s Paintings and the Medieval Mental Culture”
The phantasmagoria in the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450-1516) has led most scholars to interpret him as some kind of heretic: an astrologist, alchemist or adamite. Scholars use the same symbols for their personal preferences. The focus in this book is on Bosch as an ardent realist in his minute attention to detail. He […]
“Ob-Ugaric Metrics”
Robert Paul Austerlitz (December 13, 1923 – September 9, 1994) was a Romanian-American linguist. Born in Bucharest, he emigrated to the United States in 1938. In June 1950, he received a Master of Arts from Columbia University, where he studied under André Martinet. With funding from the Ford Foundation, he studied the Uralic and Altaic […]
“Child Murderess and Dead Child Traditions: A comparataive Study”
The comparative analysis of child murderess and dead child traditions in Irish and European folklore is the focus of this study. Drawing extensively from the Irish Folklore Collections housed at the Department of Irish Folklore, University College Dublin and citing a variety of folklore and documentary sources, this study explores Irish and European traditions concerned […]
“Studies in Finnic-Slavic Folklore Relations”
Felix Oinas was born in Kambja to the dairy farmer Ernst Oinas (1885–1975) and his wife Marie (née Saarik, 1885–1960), who was a homemaker. He grew up in the village of Maltsa. Ernst had a keen interest in literature and maintained a small library. Felix became an avid reader during elementary school, particularly interested in […]
“The Enigma of Arnold Van Gennep (1873-1957): Master of French Folklore and Hermit of Bourg-la-Reine”
Arnold van Gennep, full name Charles-Arnold Kurr van Gennep (23 April 1873 – 7 May 1957), was a Dutch–German-French ethnographer and folklorist. Biography He was born in Ludwigsburg, in the Kingdom of Württemberg (since 1871, part of the German Empire). Since his parents were never married, Van Gennep adopted his Dutch mother’s name, van Gennep. […]
“A Study of Eastern Moroccan Fairy Tales”
This book studies the structure and style of orally transmitted fairy tales from Eastern Morocco in Berber and dialectal Arabic. Drawing on materials collected in his own fieldwork and other sources, the author pays special attention to the aesthetics of the fairy tale as understood by Max Lüthi and to the analysis of tale-specific formulae. […]
