Confessions and Confidences
This anthology, comprised of an introduction and seven chapters, gives letters a central place in the historical study of academic disciplines while also considering how intellectuals – both men and women – engaged with their interlocutors and wider cultural and political discourses. The contributor...
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| description | This anthology, comprised of an introduction and seven chapters, gives letters a central place in the historical study of academic disciplines while also considering how intellectuals – both men and women – engaged with their interlocutors and wider cultural and political discourses. The contributors focus mainly on the epistolary writings of 20th-century academic and cultural figures from the Baltic region, with a particular emphasis on Finland. At the time of writing the letters, many of their authors, while striving to pursue creative and intellectual vocations in folklore, linguistics, ethnography and the literary arts, also endured various degrees of hardship and mental anguish, something to which the letters attest. The extensive citations of the letters – in their original languages and translation – offer readers the opportunity to acquaint themselves with the content, style and register of their authors’ epistolary prose. As well as imparting youthful enthusiasm and passion, the extracts from the letters also reveal the darker areas of their authors’ inner lives. However private or personal, these communications reflect the zeitgeist of their era. In addition to practicing close reading, the contributors draw from concepts and theories from the study of correspondences, auto/biography, emotional communities, positioning and scholarly personae; the contributors also note the ways in which social class and gender can influence acceptance and participation among the cultural elites. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1779782026-06-22T05:45:29Z Confessions and Confidences Virtanen, Leila Seppä, Tiina Pöysä, Jyrki Authors Correspondence (communication) Folklorists History of science and learning Letters (messages) Linguists thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTB History of scholarship (principally of social sciences and humanities) thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBG Popular beliefs and controversial knowledge::JBGB Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology) thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history This anthology, comprised of an introduction and seven chapters, gives letters a central place in the historical study of academic disciplines while also considering how intellectuals – both men and women – engaged with their interlocutors and wider cultural and political discourses. The contributors focus mainly on the epistolary writings of 20th-century academic and cultural figures from the Baltic region, with a particular emphasis on Finland. At the time of writing the letters, many of their authors, while striving to pursue creative and intellectual vocations in folklore, linguistics, ethnography and the literary arts, also endured various degrees of hardship and mental anguish, something to which the letters attest. The extensive citations of the letters – in their original languages and translation – offer readers the opportunity to acquaint themselves with the content, style and register of their authors’ epistolary prose. As well as imparting youthful enthusiasm and passion, the extracts from the letters also reveal the darker areas of their authors’ inner lives. However private or personal, these communications reflect the zeitgeist of their era. In addition to practicing close reading, the contributors draw from concepts and theories from the study of correspondences, auto/biography, emotional communities, positioning and scholarly personae; the contributors also note the ways in which social class and gender can influence acceptance and participation among the cultural elites. 2026-06-22T05:45:26Z 2026-06-22T05:45:26Z 2026-06-21T16:04:59Z 2026 book book ONIX_20260621T103021_9789524270175_3 1235-1946 (Print) 2669-9583 (Online) https://doi.org/10.21435/sff.28 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/114384 9789524270175 9789524270151 9789524270168 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/177978 eng Studia Fennica Folkloristica open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/114384/1/9789524270175.pdf Finnish Literature Society / SKS Finnish Literature Society/SKS 10.21435/sff.28 10.21435/sff.28 8ceefe60-b6e9-4502-8498-ff110bb0f062 9789524270175 9789524270151 9789524270168 Finnish Literature Society/SKS 234 Helsinki, Finland open access |
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| topic | Authors Correspondence (communication) Folklorists History of science and learning Letters (messages) Linguists thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTB History of scholarship (principally of social sciences and humanities) thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBG Popular beliefs and controversial knowledge::JBGB Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology) thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history |
| topic_facet | Authors Correspondence (communication) Folklorists History of science and learning Letters (messages) Linguists thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTB History of scholarship (principally of social sciences and humanities) thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBG Popular beliefs and controversial knowledge::JBGB Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology) thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history |
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