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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. In the 1920s and 30s, Aino Kallas became an internationally renowned author and a selection of her work was translated into English. For her, participating in the immediate cultural debates in Estonia and Finland was a priority, yet her whole oeuvre is a negotiation between her more immediate contexts and the leading conceptual frameworks of aesthetics, geniality, knowledge, subjectivity, race, sexuality, nature, etc., circling in Europe at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century.
Containing articles focusing on the question of female voice and echoes of feminist ecological thought in her fiction, a contrapuntal reading of her fiction and that of Isak Dinesen, her unknown manuscript “Bathseba”, the implications of existentialist thought for her work, Kallas’ engagement in her cultural criticism and life writings with decadent modernism, issues of race and heredity, subjectivity and borders, travel, ageing, her interpretation of Goethe, and the iconography of Kallas, the collection features the work of today’s leading Aino Kallas scholars in Finland and in Estonia.
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Keywords
- ageing
- Aino Kallas
- Art treatments & subjects
- Biography
- Biography & True Stories
- Diaries
- Estonia
- Estonian language
- Finland
- History
- Human figures depicted in art
- Humanities
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- Literature & literary studies
- Modernization
- mourning
- Poetry
- Portraits in art
- The arts
- thema EDItEUR::A The Arts
- thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGH Human figures depicted in art::AGHF Portraits and self-portraiture in art
- thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies
- thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
- Young Estonia
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DOI: 10.21435/sflit.4web: http://oa.finlit.fi/site/books/10.21435/sflit.4/
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