Des origines politiques, historiques et culturelles d’une épopée nationale : le Kalevala dans la construction identitaire de la Finlande.
In 1835 in Helsinki, Elias Lönnrot (1802-1884) published the Kalevala, an epic in verse recounting the mythological origins of the Finnish people. Republished in 1849 with numerous additions, the Kalevala was quickly and almost unanimously recognized as Finland's national epic; there is nowaday...
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| Language: | fra |
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Pléiade (EA 7338)
2022-09-01
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| Series: | Itinéraires |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/itineraires/11579 |
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| Summary: | In 1835 in Helsinki, Elias Lönnrot (1802-1884) published the Kalevala, an epic in verse recounting the mythological origins of the Finnish people. Republished in 1849 with numerous additions, the Kalevala was quickly and almost unanimously recognized as Finland's national epic; there is nowadays no doubt that its creation and its impact constituted one of the milestones on the historical path which would lead Finland from the status of a grand duchy of the Russian empire to that of an independent nation in 1917. But what was the cultural, political and international context that led to its publication and its impact? How and why was it integrated into the debates which then agitated the internal politics of Finland, in which the questions of autonomy and of bilingualism played a central role? How can we measure and explain its immediate and long-term impact? The paper seeks to answer these questions by setting aside the literary analysis of the Kalevala to analyze it as a “historical moment” and a major illustration/example of the identity awareness manifested by the mid-nineteenth century Finnish intellectuals. |
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| ISSN: | 2427-920X |