Tulkittu, torjuttu ja rajoitettu hulluus Aleksis Kiven Seitsemässä veljeksessä

Ability to Measure and Count in Aleksis Kivi’s Seven Brothers

The illiterate brothers’ elementary ability to measure and count fluently is a striking feature in the Finnish author Aleksis Kivi’s Seven Brothers (Seitsemän veljestä, 1870), a novel that was published before the metric system was introduced in Finland. The seven main characters describe their everyday life and environment and make work- related decisions using numbers, amounts, and measures of distance, area, volume, and weight without hesitation. They are also familiar with some elementary calculations. At the same time, their inability to read arouses desperate anguish in them. I analyze the ways the brothers use numbers and measurements, and the importance of these skills in their life…

Kulttuuriin liittyvät koulutustarpeet Kokkolan seudulla 2000-luvun alkuvuosina

Hulluus ja kulttuurinen mielenterveystutkimus

Hulluus ja kulttuurinen mielenterveystutkimus pureutuu siihen, miten käsityksiä hulluudesta, mielenterveydestä ja poikkeavuudesta on eri aikoina ja eri paikoissa tuotettu kielessä, taiteessa ja kulttuurisissa käytänteissä. Artikkelikokoelmassa hulluuden rajojen määrittely nähdään historiallisena ja kulttuurisidonnaisena. Sitä lähestytään ilmiönä, joka kattaa laajan kirjon outoudesta patologiaan. Teos on syntynyt osana Jyväskylän yliopiston humanistisessa tiedekunnassa 2013 perustetun Kulttuurisen mielenterveystutkimuksen tutkijaverkoston toimintaa. Verkoston jäseniä on yhdistänyt tieteenalarajat ylittävä kiinnostus hulluuteen ja mielenterveyteen. Artikkeleissa hulluutta tarkastellaan eletty…

Circular Forms in Aleksis Kivi’s Texts

In this paper, I identify and analyse regular geometric forms that appear in nineteenth-century Finnish author Aleksis Kivi’s texts. His characters and his narrators exemplify these forms to the reader. The characters’ environments are geometrically described, mapped and constructed in Seven Brothers, and geometric figures also exist in several of Kivi’s novels, plays and poems. Circles are the most common of these figures. Thus, I concentrate on expanding and converging regular geometric forms that connect to circles. peerReviewed

Festivaalien avustustenhaku opetusministeriöltä pitkän aikavälin yhteistoiminnallisena pelinä

Measures of the Massive Mountain in Aleksis Kivi’s Play Kullervo

The story of a prisoner inside an enormous steel mountain is embedded in Kullervo, an early Finnish tragedy by 19th-century author Aleksis Kivi. I focus here on the exceptional size of the mountain, as told by the main character, Kullervo. Although the embedded story has aroused admiration in research, the mountain’s size and form do not appear to have done so. If taken literally, and assuming the shape of a double pyramid, at a minimum, the mountain’s surface area would be between that of Earth and Uranus, a planet that Kivi was somehow aware of. The mountain’s maximum surface area and volume would greatly exceed that of the Sun. This mountain cannot be localized in the near environment of…

Uppoudun ja tukehdun: Häpeästä kuolemantoiveeseen ja itsemurhaan Aleksis Kiven teksteissä

The shame-born figures of drowning and suffocation illustrate death wish and suicide in the texts of the 19th century Finnish author Aleksis Kivi. Suffocations by drowning or hanging attract his characters throughout his fictional oeuvre. In tragedies, deviant lives sometimes end in suicide and as forms of death wish, drowning and suffocation also herald other kinds of suicides. The figure of suffocation connects Kivi’s texts to the tradition of western literature. Suicidal tendencies form anomalies to life and lead to textual incoherences. Death wish and suicide challenge delightful trends and interpretations. Death wish during homecoming questions the endurance of hope and joy. From a psy…

Geometry of Quadrangles in Almqvist’s The Queen’s Tiara

Quadrangles are repeatedly used in construction of scenes in Swedish author C. J. L. Almqvist’s novel The Queen’s Tiara. They limit and frame views. Repeating these structures creates connections between scenes. They form in relations between characters. Several quadrangular structures form around one main character called Tintomara, when she involuntarily attracts characters that fall in love in her. Also, quadrangles inside and beside each other are visible in scenes. Almqvist presented these forms in the elementary geometry textbook he published a year before this novel. peerReviewed

”Vedit viivan huudosta huutoon.” : euklidista geometriaa Albertista Aleksis Kiven Seitsemään veljekseen