Mysterious Minds: The Making of Private and Collective Consciousness in Marja-Liisa Vartio's Novels

Nykänen, Elise

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“…Marja-Liisa Vartio's writing on change in 20 th century Finland in The Parson's Widow, emphasizes how social groups alter their values and beliefs using new collective consciousness (Nykänen 2017) the major theme too of this paper. Much of literature on leadership focuses on traits or characteristics, such as rationality, inspiration, charisma, transforming; often citing men, and often US military (Burns 1978).…”

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Relational leadership in collaborative governance ecosystems

Kinder

Stenvall

Six

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Relational leadership in collaborative governance ecosystems

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Stenvall

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“…1990-luvulta lähtien kotimaisen modernismitutkimuk-sen painopiste on kuitenkin muuttunut ja laajentunut koskemaan myös modernististen tekstien a ektiivisuutta ja etiikkaa, politiikkaa ja historiallisesti muuttuvaa vastaanottoa (mm. Viikari 1992, Rojola 2013, Nykänen 2017a, Ovaska 2020. Pidättyvyys on kirjailijoille sekä tyylillinen valinta että tunneilmaisun tapa.…”

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“…Naispäähenkilön itsetutkiskelun perinne ulottuu L. Onervan Mirdjasta (1908) Marja-Liisa Vartion rouva Pyyhyn ja Inkeriin (teoksissa Kaikki naiset näkevät unia, 1960 ja Tunteet, 1962) ja Sinikka Kallio-Visapään Kolme vuorokautta -teoksen (1948) sivulliseen naistaiteilijaan, itsemurhan tekevään Paulaan. (Kirstinä 1998, 295-296;Hökkä 2013, 298;Nykänen 2017a. ) Palvelija Adan ja hänestä huolta pitävän kertojan välinen suhde esiintyy käänteisenä versiona Vartion myöhemmässä romaanissa Hänen olivat linnut (1967).…”

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Suomalaiset sivulliset. Eksistentiaalisten tunteiden kertominen 1950-luvun proosassa

Nykänen¹

2022

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Finnish Outsiders. The Narration of Existential Feelings in Prose Fiction of the 1950s This study explores the narration of existential feelings, or feelings of being in the world, in post-war Finnish prose fiction. The book presents five case studies which address modern individuals’ struggles in boundary situations of their lives. Rigorous readings of the works of Kerttu-Kaarina Suosalmi, Lassi Nummi, Marko Tapio, Tyyne Saastamoinen and Eeva-Liisa Manner all show the influence of French existentialism and its predecessors on post-war Finnish modernism for the first time in literary studies. The outsider figures and their experiences of the absurd, which have enticed the cultural imagination since ancient cults and the Book of Job, connect to the atmosphere of shared melancholy in post-war Finnish culture and society. The study participates in the rich contemporary debates on the effects of literature by focusing on less-discussed aspects of bodily feeling, affect, emotion and mood in late Finnish modernism. The book’s methodological contribution to narrative theory is that it combines a phenomenological analysis of reading with a rhetorical theory of narrative and politically informed, multidisciplinary emotion studies. The five case studies show how modernist outsider prose fiction in Finland resorts to irony, metafiction, allegory and the imaginative to generate ethically challenging narrative tension and an ambivalence of negative and positive emotion in readers. The opposing impulses of the aesthetic response produce an openness of interpretation. This openness provides us with the possibility of a more complex cultural understanding of emotion and ethics in the lives of strangers within literature and outside it.

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“…Hence the analysis of social minds should also entail paying close attention to the role of narrators and the way that readers process these mediators. Elise Nykänen (2017) usefully elaborates on the question of the unnaturalness of fictional minds: they "simultaneously are and are not similar to human minds […]. The fictional mind is an aesthetic illusion that is constructed, yet recognizable, and as such, is prone to be empathized with or shunned by the reader."…”

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Reading About Solidarity and Collective Action: Social Minds in Radical Fantasy Fiction

Deszcz-Tryhubczak

2018

Child Lit Educ

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This article employs the theory of social minds proposed by Alan Palmer (Social Minds in the Novel, 2010) to argue for the emergence of a group-based thinking, feeling, and acting focused on reforming the status quo, using David Whitley's Agora trilogy (2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013) as an example of Radical Fantasy. This particular subgenre of fantasy is seen as radical in the way it envisions an intergenerational struggle by the oppressed against political, racial and economic injustice, resulting in a new social order (Deszcz-Tryhubczak, 2016). The notion of transformation, it is argued, is a characteristic quality of mental functioning in Radical Fantasy storyworlds. Beyond examining Whitley's trilogy in these terms, the article also argues for a broader interest in intergenerational collective action in the field of children's literature as a way of acknowledging texts that extend the aetonormative paradigm of children's books (Nikolajeva, 2010).

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Mysterious Minds: The Making of Private and Collective Consciousness in Marja-Liisa Vartio's Novels

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Relational leadership in collaborative governance ecosystems

Relational leadership in collaborative governance ecosystems

Suomalaiset sivulliset. Eksistentiaalisten tunteiden kertominen 1950-luvun proosassa

Reading About Solidarity and Collective Action: Social Minds in Radical Fantasy Fiction

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