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Tables of Contents for A History of Finland's Literature
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
xv
2
Introduction
xvii
14
Maps
xxxi
FINNISH-LANGUAGE LITERATURE
4
271
1. Finnish Oral Poetry, Kalevala, and Kanteletar
4
30
Michael Branch
The Romantic Background
4
1
The Little Tradition
5
2
The Corpus
7
1
Performance
8
1
How the Tradition Might Have Been
9
1
Cultural and Social Determinants
10
3
Fixity and Ritual
13
1
Renewal and Change: Myth Poetry
14
1
The Spirit World
15
1
Vikings
16
1
Christianity
17
2
Historical Songs
19
1
The Herderian Idea in Finland
19
2
An Epic in the Making
21
1
The Kalevala World
22
2
Compilation
24
1
Structure
25
2
Authenticity
27
1
Reception
27
1
Kanteletar
28
1
Structure
29
1
From Cultural to Political Nationalism
30
1
The New Kalevala
31
1
After Kalevala
32
2
2. New Beginnings, Latin and Finnish
34
30
Kai Laitinen
George C. Schoolfield
The Reformation and Agricola
34
2
Agricola's Successors
36
2
The Hegemony of Swedish
38
2
Learned Works in Latin
40
1
Devotional Works in Finnish
41
1
A Finnish Baroque Poetry?
42
3
Juslenius
45
1
The Age of Porthan
46
4
Turku Romanticism and Nationalism
50
4
Juteini, Kallio, and Finnish Verse
54
2
Peasant Poets
56
1
The University at Helsinki and Fennophilia
57
2
The Finnish-Language Press
59
3
The Start of Finnish Drama
62
1
The Dream of a Full-Fledged Literature
62
2
3. The Rise of Finnish-Language Literature, 1860-1916
64
84
Kai Laitinen
The 1860s: Breaking the Ice
64
2
Academic Poets
66
4
Kivi, Pioneer and Classic
70
8
A Quiet Decade
78
2
Miniature Humorists
80
1
Poets of the Transition Period
81
2
The Era of Realism
83
1
Domestic Roots of Realism
83
2
Foreign Influences
85
2
Canth
87
5
Aho in the Era of Realism
92
3
Pakkala
95
3
Other Realists
98
1
Turning Point of Realism
99
1
Symbolism and Karelianism: The 1890s
99
3
Aho's Later Work
102
2
Jarnefelt, the Odd Man Out
104
3
From the Frost Years to the Threshold of Independence
107
2
Literature Divided
109
2
Leino
111
6
Manninen
117
2
Minor Poets
119
2
Prose of the Frost Years: Beginnings of Change
121
2
Two Woman Writers and a Young Utopian
123
6
Three Neoromantics: Linnankoski, the Young Kilpi, and Lehtonen
129
6
Descriptions of the People: Jotuni and Lassila
135
7
Poets of the 1910s
142
2
1916: A Turning Point
144
4
4. The Period of Independence 1, 1917-1960
148
62
Markku Envall
Earlier Authors Continue: Koskenniemi and Sillanpaa
148
3
Kianto, Kilpi, Lehtonen
151
3
New Lyricists: Hellaakoski and Vuorela
154
2
Poetry of the Torch Bearers
156
3
Kailas, Vala, Mustapaa
159
2
Jylha and Viljanen
161
2
Prose of the New Generation: Waltari, Haanpaa, Pekkanen
163
4
Poets of the 1930s
167
4
Novelists of the Senses and Sensibility: Uurto and Hamalainen
171
1
A Dramatist and Three Journalists: Wuolijoki, Olli, Paavolainen, Kurjensaari
172
3
Coda: A Problematic Figure
175
1
Years of War and Peace
176
4
Poets of the 1940s
180
4
The Breakthrough of Modern Poetry
184
1
Haavikko
185
2
Anhava, Rekola, Manner, Nieminen
187
3
Mannerkorpi and Holappa
190
2
Feminine Voices
192
3
Masters of the Small: Heikkila and Schreck
195
1
A Double Gift: Kunnas
196
1
Postwar Prose
197
1
Pennanen
198
1
Linna
199
1
Korpela
200
1
Huovinen and Joenpelto
201
1
Tapio and Vartio
202
2
Rintala and Meri
204
2
Laconicism and Naivism: Hyry
206
4
5. The Period of Independence 2, 1960-1990
210
65
Markku Envall
Literary Trends
210
5
Saarikoski and the Poetry of the Radical Period
215
8
Prose of the 1960s
223
1
Salama, the Proletarian Epic, and Beyond
224
4
Women Novelists
228
4
Rural and Urban Lives
232
7
Theater
239
2
Journalism and Essay
241
2
Best Sellers
243
1
Poetry of the 1970s
244
8
Prose of the 1970s
252
7
Two Irreverent Outsiders
259
3
The 1980s: Subtlety and Shock in Novels, Novellas, and Theater
262
6
Intellectuality: Poets and Narrators of the 1980s
268
1
Aphorism and Environmental Essay
269
6
FINLAND-SWEDISH LITERATURE
275
454
6. A Part of Sweden
275
23
George C. Schoolfield
Jons Budde's Book
275
1
Forsius
275
3
Abo Academy: Playwrights and Poets
278
9
Exile Literature
287
2
Frese and Lofving
289
2
Abo Reconstituted
291
2
Franzen and Choraeus
293
5
7. National Romanticism--A Golden Age?
298
56
George C. Schoolfield
Abo Romanticism
298
3
Runeberg
301
16
Runeberg's Contemporaries
317
5
Fredrika Runeberg
322
4
Runeberg's Disciples
326
3
Pioneers in Fiction
329
5
Topelius
334
12
Wecksell
346
5
Estlander: A Summing Up
351
3
8. A Sense of Minority
354
99
George C. Schoolfield
Finland-Swedish Awareness
354
4
Tavaststjerna
358
11
Ahrenberg
369
6
Memoirists and Critics
375
3
A Wave of Realists
378
8
Helsingfors Discovered
386
3
Theater
389
2
Realism and Regionalism
391
7
The New Century's Beginning
398
2
Ateneum, Euterpe, (Nya) Argus
400
2
Lybeck
402
5
Morne
407
5
Celebratory Poets: Procope, Tegengren, Emil Zilliacus
412
4
Finland-Swedish Decadence: Bertel Gripenberg
416
5
Reason and Wit: Hirn and Mattsson
421
2
Autumn Days and Alm
423
3
Local Patriots
426
6
Dagdrivare
432
3
Runar Schildt
435
5
Idealists, Realists, and the Civil War
440
11
An Eyewitness: Ruin
451
2
9: The Age of Modernism, 1916-1960
453
137
George C. Schoolfield
How New Was Modernism?
453
2
Sodergran
455
3
Diktonius
458
6
Olsson
464
5
Bjorling
469
5
Rabbe Enckell
474
6
Henry Parland
480
4
Eklund
484
5
Ultra, Quosego, 1929
489
2
A Second Modernist Wave
491
5
Skeleton in the Closet: Ornulf Tigerstedt and Fascism
496
4
Three Women, Three Answers to Life: von Schoultz, Wichman, Tuominen
500
15
Colliander and Russian Orthodoxy
515
4
Varieties of Karelianism: Stenius, Olof Enckell, Oscar Parland
519
8
A Brilliant Eclecticism: Ralf Parland
527
3
A Special Lutheranism: Nyman
530
2
Historical Narrative
532
2
Sally Salminen and Little Aland
534
8
Ostrobothnians
542
7
Poetae Minores
549
11
Prose of the 1940s and 1950s
560
7
A Nasty World and a Nicer One: Chorell and Jansson
567
8
Two Lyricists: Peter Sandelin and Carpelan
575
15
10. A Startling Growth, 1960-1990
590
139
George C. Schoolfield
The Revolt: Kihlman, Donner, and the Serial Novel
590
9
New Narrators: Bargum, Cleve, Fors
599
8
Varied Talents: Jarner, Valtiala, Ralf Nordgren, and Others
607
7
Andersson and the Poets of FBT
614
7
Hulden and Companion Blithe Spirits
621
10
The Essay and Other Nonfiction
631
5
Popularizers of Complaint
636
2
Flight, Sublimity, and Aggression
638
13
Confessor Literature and the Tikkanens
651
7
Women Writers: Ostrobothnia and Elsewhere
658
13
Regionalism's Boom and Blomqvist
671
5
Lyric Outburst of the 1970s: Romanticism's Return?
676
11
The Rock Generation
687
13
Prose of the 1980s: An Embarrassment of Riches
700
15
Lyric of the 1980s: A Similar Abundance
715
14
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE IN FINLAND
729
24
11. Children's Literature
729
24
Maija Lehtonen
Early Didactic and Moralizing Literature
729
1
Topelius and the Fennomane Movement
730
4
Differentiation and New Genres, 1900-1945
734
6
The Modern Fairy Tale, 1945-1990
740
8
The Illustrated Book
748
1
The Young Adult Novel
749
4
Finnish/Swedish Glossary of Place-Names
753
2
Bibliography
755
74
The Contributors and Translators
829
4
Index
833