title: Literary reminiscences and the symbols of modern Finland in Ismo Alanko’s poetry
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metadata.value: Soini, Helena
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metadata.value: 2021-02-04T12:26:53Z
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metadata.value: 2021-02-04T12:26:53Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-06
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metadata.value: Soini H. Literary reminiscences and the symbols of modern Finland in Ismo Alanko’s poetry. Scandinavian Philology, 2020, vol. 18, issue 2, pp. 356– 371.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu21.2020.210
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/23430
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metadata.value: The article discusses the imagery system in the work of the modern Finnish poet
  Ismo Alanko. Literary and folklore traditions in his poetry are well researched. The poet
  has created a rather critical image of Finland as a Lutheran country full of national markers,
  but well-aware of its literature: “Martti Luther ja muovipussi” (Martin Luther and a
  plastic bag). Images of Finnish architecture, gray buildings in glass and metal, and a heavy
  gray northern sky connect Alanko’s poetry to Russian culture, to the name of Isaak Levitan
  who negatively described Finland as a kingdom of gray. Alanko clearly knows about
  Levitan’s words “Gray water and gray people, gray life”, but he gets into a debate with the
  artist, proving that gray has many shades of joy. One of the leaders of Finnish expressionism,
  Uuno Kailas, associated the nature and people of Finland with gray. But Kailas’ gray
  is clearly negative and lifeless. Alanko, on the other hand, distinguishes in gray all kinds
  of positive signs of life. His poems are characterized by the description of the lyrical hero’s
  irrational states against the background of the fantastic landscapes of Lapland, creating
  mythological images not immediately amenable to interpretation. For example, in the
  image of Mooneye from the North (kuusilmä pohjoisesta), there is a motif of turning a girl
  into a fish, typical for Finnish and Karelian epic songs, also familiar to us from Kalevala
  and Eino Leino’s poetry. Alanko comprehends serious worldview problems with poetic
  elegance, with the power of poetic word removing the contradiction between religious
  and common, rational, and irrational. Alanko revives Kalevala meter not in a “museum”
  form, but with modern accents and in his native Finnish language.
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metadata.value: The study was carried out under state order of Karelian Research Centre RAS
  2018–2020.
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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 18; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: rock poetry
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: reminiscences
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Kalevala meter
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the revival of neo-romantic imagery
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: sentimentality
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: topicality
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Literary reminiscences and the symbols of modern Finland in Ismo Alanko’s poetry
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metadata.value: Article
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