Voicing Bo Carpelan : Urwind's dialogic possibilities
Finnish writer Bo Carpelan (1926-2011) gained unparalleled recognition amongst Finland-Swedish readers at home and others worldwide for his work as a poet and novelist. Yet despite a good deal of his literary output having been translated into English, surprisingly little critical commentary exists for the English reader. This study seeks to fill that gap, discovering as it does the dialogic possibilities inherent in Carpelan's work. Eight scholars separately embarked on a common challenge: to use the critical methodology of Mikhail Bakhtin to read Carpelan's novel Urwind, which won the Finlandia Prize in 1993. The resulting discussions take on topics from art and music to time, to the borders between genres, as well as humanistic geography and the thematic of mid-life, many times stretching past Urwind to touch on other of Carpelan's texts. Bo Carpelan's richly textured novel, Urwind, and Mikhail Bakhtin's subtle theories of discourse are brought together in this stimulating and sophisticated collection of essays. The contributors approach Carpelan's work using all the ideas Bakhtin has placed at their disposal - dialogism, chronotope, carnival, polyphony, the unfinishedness of novels - but in an inquiring and open, rather than merely deferential, spirit. The result is one of the most interesting and subtle discussions of Bakhtin's relationship to modernist prose we have seen, a book that sheds light on Bakhtin's work as well Carpelan's.
...
![showless](/themes/JYX2//images/showless.png)
![showmore](/themes/JYX2//images/showmore.png)
Publisher
Jyväskylän yliopistoISBN
978-951-39-7930-0ISSN Search the Publication Forum
1457-6899Keywords
Carpelan, Bo Urwind, Daniel Bahtin, Mihail kirjallisuudentutkimus romaanit kerronta merkitykset (semantiikka) dialogisuus polyfonia karnevalismi kronotoopit paikka henkilökuvaus aika ymmärtäminen kulttuurienvälisyys kirjallisuudenhistoria suomenruotsalainen kirjallisuus kaunokirjallisuus kirjallisuus
Metadata
Show full item recordCollections
License
Related items
Showing items with similar title or keywords.
-
Yksi Carpelan Bahtinilla, ravistettuna ei sekoitettuna
Hallila, Mika (Kulttuurintutkimuksen seura, 2021) -
Urwind : A Novel in Poetic Prose as a Bakhtinian Limit Case
Vainikkala, Erkki (Jyväskylän yliopisto, 2020) -
Mihail Bahtinin dialogisuus-käsitys ja sen piirteitä sanataiteessa
Kaihoja, Petri (2003) -
Kiinalaisen kaunokirjallisuuden suomennokset 1900-luvulla : kääntämisen ja vastaanoton kulttuurinen konteksti
Saarti, Jarmo (Jyväskylän yliopisto, 2013) -
Perinnetietoisesti perinteitä vastaan
Marttinen, Heta (Kirjallisuudentutkijain seura, 2014)