Pekka Suhonen

Metsä ja kirjallisuus.

Suhonen P. (1987). Metsä ja kirjallisuus. Silva Fennica vol. 21 no. 4 article id 5333. https://doi.org/10.14214/sf.a15490

Abstract

In world literature, there are many forests of significance, e.g. oak forest of Mamre and in Dante’s Divine Comedy. Finnish literature has abounded with forest topics since ancient folkore. We have a literature of floaters, loggers and paper workers of industrialized Finland, not to speak of a hunting literature. A major theme is ”from forest to town”, where the first work, Aleksis Kivi’s ”Seven brothers”, is a landmark in Finnish literature. Forests of many other authors are also presented, as well as ancient chants and poems.

The paper is based on a lecture given in the seminar ‘The forest as a Finnish cultural entity’, held in Helsinki in 1986. The PDF includes a summary in English.

Original keywords
kirjallisuudentutkimus; metsäkirjallisuus; metsästyskirjallisuus; savottakirjallisuus; metsästysrunot; mytologia

English keywords
literary science; forest literature; logger literature; hunting literature; hunting poems; mythology

Published in 1987

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