Interlitteraria  

Liina Lukas, Silke Pasewalck, Katre Talviste

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Javier Gómez-Montero

European Readings beyond Europe: World Literature, Literary Canon and Education in Europe. The present essay discusses the concepts “literary canon”, “world literature”, “classic authors”, and “literary masterworks”. Moreover, it summarises their origins ... see more

Olavi Teppan

For decades, Estonian literary scholars have expressed the need for research in the field of our own translation history in order to explain different aspects of the reception of world literature and to treat the history of Estonian translated literature ... see more

Rebekka Lotman

The article attempts to highlight two aspects of the sonnet’s semiotic mechanisms from which the dynamics and openness of this form emerge. Firstly, in the production of meaning from the synchronic aspect and secondly, diachronically viewing the sonnet as... see more

Arne Merilai

Viivi Luik has been active in Estonian literature for half a century: from the times of Soviet censorship to regained independence. Her renowned novels Seitsmes rahukevad (The Seventh Spring of Peace, 1985) and Ajaloo ilu (The Beauty of History, 1991) hav... see more

Caroline Anthérieu-Yagbasan

Embodying Poverty – the Look of Misery in the Spleen de Paris. In the 19th century due to the new economic situation literature faced a new problem of how to represent the city. Also, modernity attempted to perceive beauty in things and phenomena that wer... see more

Jüri Talvet

The article proposes to revise critically the work of the Estonian-Finnish writer Hella Wuolijoki created in her mother tongue, Estonian. The main Estonian researcher of Wuolijoki’s work, the late writer and critic Oskar Kruus did not attribute any import... see more

Monica Spiridon

Our contribution points to the strategic split operated by Ian McEwan’s narrative and, comparatively, by Joe Wright’s film Atonement. This split allows them to craft two diverging narrative discourses which overtly compete to dominate the interpretation o... see more

Katrin Kangur

This article uses as a case study the historical-biographical drama film Hamsun (1996) in order to discuss the complications that arise when considering biographical films as adaptations of biographical and/or autobiographical works of literature. Hamsun ... see more

Maarja Hollo

The Second World War cleft Estonian literature into two halves for half a century: the literature of the homeland and the literature of the diaspora. Bernard Kangro (1910–1994), who fled Estonia in 1944, was a prolific writer, the editor of the magazine T... see more

Anneli Kõvamees

At the focus of the article is Aimée Beekman’s travelogue Plastmassist südamega madonna (A Madonna With a Plastic Heart, 1963). Using imagology (or image studies) as the theoretical basis, the article analyses the Soviet Estonian author’s image of Italy i... see more

Withold Bonner

The Presence of the Past or The Limits of What Can be Told. Letters, Diaries and Fictional Texts by GDR-Authors around 1970. The article discusses the way in which certain topoi, particularly those suggesting analogies between specific phenomena in the GD... see more

Eve Pormeister

“But I Still Had This Question: How Does One Live Under a Dictatorship?” Christa Wolf – Hopes and Disappointments of an East German Writer. The article focuses on the tensions between writing and dictatorship and especially between real socialism and soci... see more

Birgit Dahlke

Delayed, Crippled, Worn Out, Calcified. The „Negative” Poetics of the East German Poet Wolfgang Hilbig (before and after 1989). Is Wolfgang Hilbig (b. 1941) a GDR author? He published his first book when he was 40 in West Germany. Why do his texts neverth... see more

Dieter Neidlinger, Silke Pasewalck

“Die Redlichkeit des Betrugs” – Poetic Remembrance and Totalitarianism at Herta Müller and Vladimir Vertlib. The article deals with poetic remembrance of totalitarianism, taking a closer look at two contemporary authors from the German speaking literature... see more

Jaan Undusk

Of the So-Called Soviet Estonian literature. The aim of Socialist Realism was not to define aesthetically the new Socialist art, but rather to provide a tool for ideological control. It contained a deliberate contradiction. This contradiction was called d... see more

Liina Lukas

The Poetics and Reception of Hidden Resistance: the Estonian Game of Totalitarianism. Where, with whom or with what does totalitarianism begin? An answer in the spirit of Hannah Arendt would be: at the moment when people stop thinking; at the moment when ... see more

Aija Sakova-Merivee

The Eclipse of the Past in Ene Mihkelson’s novel Katkuhaud (The Plague Grave, 2007). The latest novel Katkuhaud of Ene Mihkelson picks up the image of the Bronze Soldier to illustrate the complex problem of remembering the (Soviet) past in Estonia. Katkuh... see more

Benedikts Kalnacs

The article provides an interpretation of the development of Latvian literature during the Soviet period. In order to grasp historical connections, an overview of the literary, cultural and social development in the territory of the present day Latvia in ... see more

Epp Annus, Piret Peiker, Liina Lukas

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