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article id 5333,
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(1987).
Metsä ja kirjallisuus.
Silva Fennica
vol.
21
no.
4
article id 5333.
https://doi.org/10.14214/sf.a15490
English title: Forest and literature.
Original keywords:
kirjallisuudentutkimus;
metsäkirjallisuus;
metsästyskirjallisuus;
savottakirjallisuus;
metsästysrunot;
mytologia
English keywords:
literary science;
forest literature;
logger literature;
hunting literature;
hunting poems;
mythology
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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.
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Suhonen,
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