title: The motif of the way in the work of the poets of Finland in the 20th century
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metadata.value: Soini, Helena
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metadata.value: 2024-02-29T10:36:20Z
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metadata.value: 2023-09
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metadata.value: Soini H. G. The motif of the way in the work of the poets of Finland in the 20th century. Scandinavian Philology, 2023, vol. 21, issue 2, pp. 374–394. https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu21.2023.211 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu21.2023.211
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/44980
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metadata.value: The path motif is one of the major dominants in the works of prominent 20thcentury
  poetsof Finland, both Finnish and Swedishnative speakers. Understanding life
  as a road is what Eino Leino shares in common with Uuno Kailas, Paavo Haavikko,
  Risto Ahti, Heli Laaksonen, Edith Södergran, and Ralf Nordgren. Their position coincides
  with the creative concepts of Alexander Blok and the ideas of pilgrimage in
  European literature and in Kalevalian poetry. 20th-century Finnish poetry falls into all-
  European line. But in Finnish poetry, the path motif has existed since the epic songs:
  Lemminkäinen’s escape, folklore heroes’ journey in search of a bride, and Kalevalians’
  quest to recover the Sampo. Furthermore, travelers’ purposes ranged from noble and
  holy to everyday and mundane. In the early 20th century, Finnish neo-Romanticists,
  referring to the history of national culture, travelled frequently to Finnish and Russian
  Karelia. Since the 1920s, poets have been referring to the road image as the “holy
  road of calling” (Uuno Kailas) a singer has no right to turn away from. In post-World
  War II poetry, moving in a circle or “back and forth” (Risto Ahti) is, in any case, moving
  forward. The important thing is not to get stranded, not to run into a wall. The path
  dominant becomes deeply intertwined with the image of a home, as the path motif does
  with the image of time, life cycle, and biography. A real, geographical, biographical, and
  spiritual path become one, and on that path high is combined with low or even vile. In
  modern Finnish poetry, the path theme found a new life with different, sometimes not
  matching nuances, while still remaining relevant and arguably primary.
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metadata.value: The paper was written as part of the state task assigned to the Karelian Research
  Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, no. 121070800089-0 “Folklore, Handwritten
  Books and Literature of the European North: Source Study and Poetics”.
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Scandinavian Philology;Volume 21; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Literature of Finland
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the motif of the road
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: life-road
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: spiritual biography
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: return
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: home
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The motif of the way in the work of the poets of Finland in the 20th century
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