title: GUNNAR EKELÖF’S DIWAN-TRILOGY
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metadata.value: Press, Natalia
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metadata.value: 2018-02-15T15:12:03Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-02-15T15:12:03Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2017-12
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metadata.value: Press N. A. Gunnar Ekelöf ’s Diwan-Trilogy. Scandinavian Philology, 2017, vol. 15, issue 2, pp. 307–323.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu21.2017.210
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/9142
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metadata.value: Gunnar Ekelöf is one of the most prominent figures in Swedish poetry of the 1900s,
  whose legacy is widely known all over the world and translated into multiple languages.
  Ekelöf ’s writings have always been an object of major preoccupation for both readers
  and scholars in Scandinavian and other European countries. “Byzantine” trilogy
  (Diwan-trilogin), also known as “acrit cycle”, consists of three collection of poems
  “Diwan on the prince of Emgion” (Diwan över Fursten av Emgion, 1965), “The Tale of
  Fatumeh” (Sagan om Fatumeh, 1966) and “The guide to the underworld” (Vägvisare till
  underjorden, 1967). The trilogy was mostly inspired by Byzantine history and art as well
  as by the deep experience Ekelöf gained while travelling through Turkey in spring 1965.
  The trilogy, especially its third part, is an ultimate expression of Ekelöf ’s lifework and
  reflects the most important and profound themes that involved him deeply throughout
  his whole life. This article aims to describe origins of the trilogy, its literary style and
  philosophical uniqueness, address the sources the author was working with as well as
  analyze the several aspects of collections’ composition. The main attention is paid to the
  third part, “The Guide to the Underworld” — the most complicated, rich with multiple
  allusions, self-citations and ekphrasis part of the trilogy where the Eastern theme is less
  obvious on the level of formal expression. A characteristic feature of its composition
  that stands out is repeated significant formulas, one of them being analyzed in the
  article and appearing in five different poems beginning with the wording “I do best
  alone at night” (“Ensam i tysta natten”). Ekelöf uses those poems as a possibility to
  speak openly and straightforward to the reader about the most important issues in his
  writings: time and eternity, life and death, the good and the evil, eroticism and mysticism
  as well as about the role of an artist in our modern world.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Scandinavian Philology;Volume 15; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Gunnar Ekelöf
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Swedish poetry
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: modernism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: mysticism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Diwan-trilogy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: intertextuality
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: GUNNAR EKELÖF’S DIWAN-TRILOGY
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metadata.value: Article
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