Re-evaluating oral poetry : research on the composers ́ field

Lectio praecursoria University of Helsinki 5.2.2011.

Integration or a Greek tragedy?: How crisis spillovers affect Central and Eastern European States

Tutkielma siitä, miten Euroopan entisten sosialistivaltioiden markkinoiden integroituminen on edistynyt Kreikan ja EMU-alueen kanssa euron käyttöönoton ajalta. Tutkimus vertaa maiden markkinoiden reaktioita Kreikasta ja EMU-alueelta kantautuviin sokkeihin ennen ja jälkeen vuonna 2007 alkanutta kriisiä.

Study of present day folk poetry

Kirja-arvio

Gemeine Beschribung aller mittnächtige Lender : Schweden, Gothen, Nordwegien, Denemarck etc

Julkaisussa: Cosmographia : Beschreibung aller Lender durch Sebastianum Munsterum in welcher begriffen

Nieuwe kaart van Oostindie met alle desselfs omleggende eylanden etc

Irtokartta

Suecia et Norwegia etc

Julkaisussa: Atlas minor

Paysages du nord: Belgique, Hollande, Baltique, Golfes de Bothnie et de Finlande, Laponie, Océan Glacial, Iles d'Aland, Norvége, Suéde, Cattégat, Villes Hanséatiques, etc., etc., par L. Morel-Fatio

De douze dessins dʹaprès nature.

Carte des courones du nord qui comprend les royaumes de Danemark, Suède et Norvège etc.

Kartalla: Téatre de la guerre des courones du nord qui comprend les royaumes de Danemark, Suède & Norvège

Seconde carte des courones du nord qui comprend les royaumes de Danemark etc

Kartta kuuluu A. E. Nordenskiöldin kokoelmaan

Neuester Plan und Fürer von Berlin, Charlottenburg und Westend nebst einem Verzeichniss der Strassen, Plätze und öffentlichen Gebäude etc. sowie der Sehenswürdigkeiten Berlins

Kartta kuuluu A. E. Nordenskiöldin kokoelmaan

Philips' map of Egypt and the Soudan, including the Valley of the Nile, the Red Sea, Abyssinia, Arabia, etc

Kartta kuuluu A. E. Nordenskiöldin kokoelmaan

[Aakenusjoki etc.]

Kartta kuuluu A. E. Nordenskiöldin kokoelmaan

Collective Memory Embodied in Poetry as Poison. The Mnemonic Role of Romantic Poets Discussed on the Basis of Adam Mickiewicz’ Konrad Wallenrod and Forefathers (Part III)

This thesis constitutes an interdisciplinary approach to the Polish Romanticism combining literature studies with memory studies, nationalism research and psychoanalysis. This phenomenon-based study attempts to answer the question, how the Polish national poet Adam Mickiewicz (1798–1855) – or more exactly the implied authors in his works – perceived the role of poetry in mnemonic terms and how it changes in course of time. Consequently, ‘memory in literature’ (Astrin Erll and Ansger Nünning) is discussed here. Two pieces of writing by Mickiewicz – Konrad Wallenrod [1828] and the third part of Forefathers [1832], where a bard respectively a poetic genius appears – are seen as meta-texts defining goals of poets in time of the political non-existence of a state. Poetry is supposed to keep memory of the glorious past alive, kindle the love for the motherland, support the collective identity of a group and initiate a liberation movement. Poets function as memory guards, leaders of the nation and prophets. Thus, literature is a medium of collective memory – it stores crucial contents, transmits them and acts as a cue. Nevertheless, shifting the focus from the community towards well-being of individuals, which is consistent with the postmodern thinking, the impact that poetry has on members of a given memory culture (Jan Assmann) can be described in ‘vampiric’ terms (Maria Janion). Poetry embodying collective memory may be compared to ‘poison’, ‘infecting’ people with a nationalistic way of thinking to their disadvantage as far as their personal lives are concerned.

Tabvla Rvssiae ex autographo, quod delineandum curavit Foedor filius tzaris Boris desumta; et ad fluvios Dwinam, Zuchanam, aliaque loca, quantum ex tabulis et notitiis ad nos delatis fieri potuit, amplificata: ac magno domino, tzari , et magno duci Michäeli Foedorowits omnium Russorum, autcratori Wolodimeriae, Moscoviae et Novogardia. Tzari Cazaniae, tzari Astracaniae, tzari Siberiae, domino Plescoviae magno duci Smolenscoviae, Otweriae, Iugoriae, Permiae, Wiatkiae, Bulgariae etc: domino regionum Iveriae Kartalinie et Groesiniae tzari etc: dedicata ab Hesselo Gerardo M.DC.XIIII.

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