Poetics is in genes: A manifesto

The consonants at law – Sigma vs. Tau, in the court of the seven vowels

The consonants at law by Lucian of Samosata – a joke or what?

A pair of fading disciplines – the art of phrasing based on the art of thinking: The emergence of rhetoric and the poetics of philosophy in Greece and their lingering in other places

Repeating repetitions: Rendering figures of repetition in Estonian translations of Greek novels

The strophic structure of ancient Hebrew affective and reflective distress poetry, on the example of the speeches of Job

The poetics of young Jaan Bergmann: Poetic art as pleasure and instruction

Poetics of the Estonian novell (classic short story)

The conflict between lyric and autobiographical

Text and performance in sound poetry: Eesti by Jaan Malin

The poetics of ambivalence

Rural prostitutes as reflected in folklore and court materials

Analysis is tenderness

On Estonian literary criticism in 2019–2020

Motion verbs along the horizontal and vertical axes

A sorting experiment

Dialecticity in Harald Peep’s literary studies

Invisible Helsinki

Kjell Westö’s poetics of space

Contradictions in the depiction of Stalinist time in contemporary prose

The motive of meeting

Adaptation of the neoclassical prefixes super-, hüper-, mega- and ultra- in Estonian

From a Mansi creation song to the Estonian bird of creation

Dissolution of storytelling and scenic representation in Ene Mihkelson’s prose

Numerals and counting in Estonian

“A Jew who came to Estonia”

Juri Lotman’s reception in the Estonian literary landscape

Names and nicknames of Siberian Estonians

The base form and other forms of Estonian verb

“The Writers Union has not yet been able to unite all”

Addenda to the founding of the Estonian Soviet Writers Union from 1943 through 1946 

Radical homelessness in Ene Mihkelson’s poetry

Estonian language in 17th and 18th century church administrative documents

Digital humanities in Estonia

From digital humanities to cultural data analytics

Differences, distances and fingerprints

The fundamentals of stylometry and multivariate text analysis

Distant reading of literary language

Developing a ­methodology using quotations as an example

Digital reading and humanities education

From a collection of dictionaries to a language portal

Dialects, variation and corpus data

Position of the negation word in Võru and Seto

Changing Kakason to Kaljula

Analysing database of Estonianizing surnames

Kann man das Klima kodieren?

Zur digitalen Wende in der historischen Klimaforschung in Estland

Newly discovered samples of 17th-century Estonian poetry

Early modern disputation: conduct, structure and topics

On ”The Poems of Ossian” and Baltic German Ossianism. Part 1

The problem of paronyms in Estonian

Soviet-time travelling experience in biographical narratives

Recommendations for the meanings of foreign words and their presentation in the EKI Combined Dictionary

On „The Poems of Ossian” and Baltic German Ossianism. Part II

Das Õ

The changing mind

A comparison of word associations gathered in the years 1973–1974 and 2016–2018

Whence the name Sipsik for a favourite Estonian ragdoll character? 

A unique term for malt

New dates about the origin of the place name Tartu

Estonian names for a flat cap

Kostuma and kostma

A century’s journey to synonym

Asta Õim interviewed on figurative Estonian

The speech acts of a professor

Arne Merilai 60

Estonian life stories making up a Big Narrative of Estonia

An interview with Rutt Hinrikus

Language planning in our lives 

Once more on dictionaries, language planning and editing

Language choice in the doctoral dissertations by native Estonian PhD students of the University of Tartu

What is Estonian literature? 

Once more on an Estonian double verse by Joachim Salemann

A foul-mouthed folk: On the publication of a two-volume collection of Estonian sayings

Eesti kõnekäänud I–II. (Monumenta Estoniae antiquae VII. Phrasia Estonica I.) Toimetaja Asta Õim. Tartu: EKM Teadus­kirjastus, 2020. 1148 lk, 1150 lk.

August Gailit – from a Latvian correspondent to an Estonian writer

August Gailit. Siis tuli sõda. (Eesti mõtte­lugu 145.) Koostanud Hando Runnel. Tartu: Ilmamaa, 2019. 536 lk.

A monumental monograph by Krista Aru on Jaan Tõnisson as statesman and journalist

Krista Aru. Jaan Tõnisson – rahvajuht ja riigivanem. 1. ja 2. osa. (Riigivanemad 3–4.) Tartu: Rahvusarhiiv, 2019. 991 lk (511+480 lk).

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Free thinking can make difficult reading

Hasso Krull. Imelihtne tulevik. Manifeste ja mõtisklusi 1995–2009. (Vabamõtlejad 1.) Tartu: Vabamõtleja, 2020. 198 lk.

Clarifying classic poetry

Gustav Suits. Nii tuli õhtu. Compiled by Mart Velsker. Tallinn: Tänapäev, 2020. 339 lk.

Personal letters as literature

Raimond Kaugver. Kirjad Sigridile. Sõjatandrilt ja vangilaagrist 1944–1949. Compiled by Eneken Laanes. Tallinn: Underi ja Tuglase Kirjanduskeskus, 2020. 339 lk.

An earnest prophet of the intolerable

Elo Viiding. Mina kõnelen kirjandusest (Tekste aastatest 2009–2019). Tallinn: Tuum, 2020. 140 lk.

The 250th anniversary album of Karl Morgenstern

Qui vult, potest. Karl Morgenstern 250. Compiled by Jaanika Anderson. Editors Janika Päll, Jaanika Anderson, Moonika Teemus, Ivo Volt. Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus, 2020. 350 lk.

A monograph on inflection in standard Estonian

Annika Viht, Külli Habicht. Eesti keele sõnamuutmine. (Eesti keele varamu 4.) Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus, 2019. 438 lk.

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Fandom and how it took root in Estonia

Fändomi sünd. Artikleid ulmekirjandusest. Compiled by Veiko Belials and Joel Jans. Tartu: Eesti Ulmeühing, 2020. 520 lk.

A liberated mind turning to body

Sirje Kiin. Kirjanduse vabadus ja vabaduse kirjandus. Artikleid, sõnavõtte ja (sise)arvustusi 1977–2019. (Studia litteraria Estonica 20.) Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus, 2019. 445 lk.

Collected poems by Ernst Enno in Lauri Sommer’s fine arrangement

Ernst Enno. Imelikku rada pikka. Koostanud Lauri Sommer. Tallinn: Tänapäev, 2020. 272 lk.

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Successfully fitting together different genres, styles and usages

Lauri Sommer. Lõputu soovid. Tallinn: Menu, 2020. 136 lk.

A fool’s errand

Tauno Vahter. Pikaajaline kokkusaamine. Tallinn: Tänapäev, 2020. 183 lk.

A thorough overview of Estonian dialects

Jüri Viikberg. Eesti murrete grammatika. (Eesti keele varamu VIII.) Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus, 2020. 360 lk.

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How to accumulate a novel

Kaur Riismaa. jaanalind kägu kajakas. Tallinn: Vihmakass ja Kakerdaja, 2021. 508 lk.

Even an expatriate passing over a rock will leave a mark: Kalju Lepik’s life in literature

Kalju Lepik. Vaid üks eesti kirjandus. Mälestusi, arvustusi, kõnesid ja vestlusi. Tallinn: EKSA, 2020. 575 lk.

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Another step in the rehabilitation of Jannsen

Rein Veidemann. Lunastatud. Romaan eestlaste Ristija Johannesest ning teest tema äratundmiseni. Tallinn: EKSA, 2020. 188 lk.

How to learn dream language

Jaan Sudak. Mia nägi unõs...… Uni ja unenäod eesti rahvapärimuses. Tallinn: Varrak, 2021. 295 lk.

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Inna Leitsalu. Piiritu igatsus. Nikolai Baturini kirjad Innale. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 2021. 272 lk.

A book on the life and works of Aimée Beekman

Sirly Hiiemäe. Ja kõik läheb mööda. Kirjanik Aimée Beekman. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 2021. 190 lk.

An aristocrat watching a caged elephant

Mihkel Mutt. Maailmas peegelduv veetilk. Arutlusi Eestist, kultuurist, ajaloost. (Eesti mõttelugu 155.) Tartu: Ilmamaa, 2020. 334 lk.

A Tallinn romance

Martin Klöker. Caspar und Catharina. Eine Revaler Liebe in Briefen des 17. Jahr­hunderts. (Baltische literarische Kultur, Band 2.) Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2020. 352 lk.

Villem Ernits observed from near and far

Villem Ernits. Koostaja Ott Kurs. Rupsi: Liivi Muuseum, 2021. 118 lk.

The primer of Ludza Estonian and more

Uldis Balodis. Lutsi kiele lementar. Ludzas igauņu valodas ābece. [Ludza:] LU Lībie­šu institūts un Ludzas pilsētas galvenā bibliotēka, 2020. 232 lk.

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Straddling between poetry and philosophy

Mart Kangur. Armkude. Tallinn: Sõna­hulgus, 2021. 72 lk; Mart Kangur. Kellegi teisena. Tallinn: Sõnahulgus, 2021. 80 lk.

Probing the dreamlife

Eva Koff. Kirgas uni. Tallinn: Härra Tee & proua Kohvi, 2021. 264 lk.

New addenda to the writer´s image of Jaan Kross, plus some clear cut stories about the women around him

Jaan Kross. Kallid krantsid. Kirjad vangi­laagritest ja asumiselt Siberist 1946–1954. Koostanud ja kommenteerinud Eerik-Niiles Kross. Tallinn–Tartu–Brüssel: Eesti Üliõpilaste Seltsi Kirjastus, 2021. 976 lk.

The Baltic unity of fate: on the monograph History of Baltic literary culture I

Balti kirjakultuuri ajalugu I. Keskused ja kandjad. Koostanud Liina Lukas. Autorid Vahur Aabrams, Meelis Friedenthal, Tiina-Erika Friedenthal, Katre Kaju, Tiina Kala, Kairit Kaur, Martin Klöker, Lea Leppik, L. Lukas, Anu Mänd, Pärtel Piirimäe, Ulrike Plath, Aivar Põldvee, Tiiu Reimo, Aiga Šemeta, Jaan Undusk, Kristi Viiding. Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus, 2021. 304 lk.

The Estonian language has gone down in history

Külli Prillop, Karl Pajusalu, Eva Saar, Sven-Erik Soosaar, Tiit-Rein Viitso. Eesti keele ajalugu. (Eesti keele varamu VI.) Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus, 2020. 420 lk.

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A sentimental ’debtor to life’

In memoriam August Eelmäe (28. X 1931 – 7. XII 2020) 

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Reflections of Linda Vilde´s life cycle exhibited at Eduard Vilde´s Museum

In memoriam Helmi Neetar (29/01/1934 – 01/02/2021)

Audio materials of Võru (regional) language at www.helüait.ee

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The grand old man of metacritique

Rein Veidemann 75

How to perpetuate the memory of Jaan Kaplinski

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