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Timo Vuorisalo

Esa Lehikoinen

Risto Lemmetyinen

Suomen lintutieteen synty avaa näköalan Turun Akatemiassa ennen vuoden 1827 suurta paloa tehtyyn lintututkimukseen. Millaista oli 1600- ja 1700-lukujen tietämys linnuista ja miltä se näyttää nykytiedon valossa? Turun Akatemian lintututkimukset ovat pääosin latinankielisinä ja lähestymistavaltaan vieraina jääneet huonosti tunnetuiksi ja aliarvostetuiksi. Tähän teokseen sisältyvät suomennokset Aurajoen akatemian lintuaiheisista opinnäytteistä ja muista aikalaistutkimuksista. Aihepiirit vaihtelevat ulapan aaltojen myyttisestä jäälinnusta lintuteologiaan, pääskyjen talvehtimisen mysteeristä maamme vanhimman naurulokkiyhdyskunnan tieteellisen tarkkaan kuvaukseen. Teos sisältää myös ensimmäisen Suomen lintujen lajiluettelon. Suomen lintutieteen synty on ainutlaatuinen tietokirja ja välttämätön lähdeteos kaikille Suomen linnuston ja lintutieteen kehityksestä innostuneille. Toinen korjattu painos (2020) sisältää laajat hakemistot.

Turun Akatemian aika

Suomen lintutieteen synty

Pirjo Lyytikäinen

Saija Isomaa

Literary mimesis is an age-old concept which has been variously interpreted and at times highly contested, and which has recently been brought back to the forefront of scholarly interest. The debate around mimesis has been reactivated by approaches that re-evaluate its meaning both in the ancient texts in which it first appeared, and in the contemporary discussions of the power of literary representation. This volume presents a selection of central contributions to both the theoretical debate on mimesis and to its up-to-date critical practice. This volume approaches mimesis by emphasising the principles of knowledge, understanding and imagination that have been associated with mimesis since Aristotle’s Poetics. The articles consider the various aspects of the concept throughout history, and explore the ways in which literature produces its peculiar reality effects and negotiates its relationship to value systems connecting it to the world of everyday experience and ethics, as well as to different ideologies, emotions, world views and fields of knowledge. Building on this rich theoretical background, the articles examine the limits and possibilities of mimesis through detailed textual analyses that present acute challenges to our current understanding of literary representation.

Concepts and Practices of Literary Representation

Rethinking Mimesis

Outi Hakola

Death is an inevitable, yet mysterious event. Fiction is one way to imagine and gain knowledge of death. Death is very useful to literature, as it creates plot twists, suspense, mysteries, and emotional effects in narrations. But more importantly, stories about death seem to have an existential importance to our lives. Stories provide fictional encounters with death and give meaning for both death and life. Thus, death is more than a physical or psychological experience in literature; it also highlights existential questions concerning humanity and storytelling. This volume, entitled Death in Literature, approaches death by examining the narratives and spectacles of death, dying and mortality in different literary genres. The articles consider literary representations of death from ancient Rome to the Netherlands today, and explore ways of dealing with death and dying. The discussions also transcend the boundaries of literature by studying literary representations of such socially relevant and death-related issues as euthanasia and suicide. The articles offer a broad perspective on death’s role in literature as well as literature’s role in the social and cultural debates about death.

Death in Literature

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