Decadence as the aesthetics of ambivalences

Fusions and syntheses

Filtered decadence

The translation and reception of Gabriele D’Annunzio in the early 20th century Estonian culture

Guy De Maupassant’s short stories in Estonia in the early 20th century

Translations and reception through the lens of decadence

Waning sex beyond good and evil

Friedrich Nietzsche’s vital affects in the distorting mirror of Jaan Oks’ works

Dark temples brimming with sweetness from the shared impulse of all living things

Jaan Oks’ subject in process

Decadence and life

Nietzschean-Bergsonian aesthetics of movement and flow in the early prose of Tammsaare and Semper

On the aestheticist roots of the intellectual Left in the first half of the 20th century

Estonian decadent sonnet

Decadence in the theatrical situation on the example of Oscar Wilde’s “Salomé”

Soviet Estonian decadence

The cosmogonic comb and the celestial swing

Computational insights into the variation of Finnic folk songs

“Searching for the Comb” and “Sword from the Sea”

Magic in numbers and words

On Estonian literary criticism in 2022–2023

Variation of complex numerals in old written Estonian

Perceptions of the word kväär ‘queer’ among the Estonian LGBT community

The massacre on Lake Liepāja

Botany at the Swedish University of Tartu on the example of the disputation „De plantis” (1647) by Johannes Erici and Andreas Arvidi

Estonian tanka

Prevalence, authors, themes and forms

Factual narrative in the 17th century

On the narrative structure of the minutes of the Estonian corporation of nobility

Võro and Seto language shift in the 20th–21st century

An irreversible process?

Women’s religious agency on the example of Russian Old Believer communities in Estonia

Artur Alliksaar’s alliterative archetypes

Estonian laskma-causative

The cosmos of paronyms

Insights from a comparative study of Estonian and German

Rhyme in Estonian poetic culture

Theories and practices

From dictionary to constructicon

Background, examples, and challenges

Windows, entryways to infinity

Parallelisms in the works of Giacomo Leopardi, Tõnu Õnnepalu, and Jan Kaus

Vanakooli (‘old-school’)

kuhtuma and kuihtuma

World mythologies brought home

Mare Kõiva 70

Livonians as a model for a future community

Valts Ernštreits 50

Nature views humans as temporary

Elle-Mari Talivee 50

An oxymoron: surrealist oxymoron

The fog thickens

Andrei Ivanov. Hämariku melanhoolia. Translated from Russian by Veronika Einberg. Varrak, 2023. 375 lk.

An eve of no happy returns

Jaan Kaplinski, Tõnu Õnnepalu. Kirjad. [Tallinn:] Aadam ja pojad, 2022. 389 lk.

Livonians are everywhere and nowhere

Lībiešu [kultūr]telpa. Zanes Ernštreites sarunās un Agneses Zeltiņas fotogrāfijās. [Ventspils:] LU Lībiešu institūta atbalsta biedrība / LI Līvõd institūt tigtimiz seļtš, Nodibinājums „Vents-pils lībiešu apvienība Rānda”, 2023. 334 lk.

Now he has a world of time and space

Sven Vabar. Ribadeks tõmmatud linn. Jutud vms 2001–2014. Kaksikhammas, 2023. 183 lk.

How to imagine better?

Jaak Tomberg. Kuidas täita soovi. Realism, teadusulme ja utoopiline kujutlusvõime. (Studia litteraria Estonica 24.) Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus, 2023. 307 lk.

A thesis on women’s role in Old Believer communities

Danila Rygovskiy. Women in Russian Old Belief: Religious Practices and Public Imagination on the Example of Siberian and Estonian Old Believer Communities. (Dissertationes folkloristicae Universitatis Tartuensis 36.) Tartu: University of Tartu Press, 2023. 248 lk.

„I wish I could conjure myself into a body”: Sveta Grigorjeva's monstrous bodies of text

Sveta Grigorjeva. Frankenstein. [Tallinn:] Suur Rida, 2023. 100 lk.

What was the Daughter of Heaven like, really?

Piret Jaaks. Taeva tütred. Tallinn: Varrak, 2023. 268 lk.

The old soul and new path of Tõnis Vilu

Tõnis Vilu. Vana hing. Luuletused 2021–2023. [Väike-Maarja:] Häämaa, 2023. 73 lk.

A diverse collection of Latvian women's history

Letonica. Humanitāro zinātņu žurnāls. Kd 49. LU Literatūras, folkloras un mākslas institūta apgāds / The Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art of the Uni­versity of Latvia, 2023. 254 lk.

Annotations

On simplifications and generalizations

Urmas Vadi. Kuu teine pool. [Tartu:] Kolm Tarka, 2023. 382 lk.

Café Vareda

Sven Mikser. Vareda. Rahva Raamatu kirjastus, 2023. 318 lk.

That which cannot be said differently

Marko Pajević. Poeetiliselt mõtelda. Nüüd ja kohe. (Kaasaegne mõte.) Tlk Jaanus Sooväli. [Tartu:] Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus, 2023. 133 lk.

European testament, tongue in cheek

Kristjan Haljak. Elektra Domina. Tartu: Kaksikhammas, 2023. 92 lk.

Introduction to the history of Swedish literary culture on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea

Raimo Raag. Rootsi kirjakultuur uusaegsel Eesti-, Liivi- ja Ingerimaal. (Eesti Teaduste Akadeemia Emakeele Seltsi toimetised 82.) Tallinn: Emakeele Selts, 2023. 173 lk.

Language reform was pointless and unnecessary? Really?

Antoine Chalvin. Johannes Aavik ja eesti keeleuuendus. (Gigantum humeris.) Translated by Heete Sahkai. Tallinn: TLÜ Kirjastus, 2023. 280 lk.

Annotations

Short chronicles  

Defended doctoral theses

In memoriam Ottilie-Olga Kõiva (6. II 1932 – 9. XI 2023)

Short chronicles

Defended doctoral theses

Regio Baltica et Europa – pons studiorum et doctrinae

Arvo Tering 75

In memory of Evi Juhkam (17. III 1932 – 1. XII 2023)

Short chronicles

Rhyme roads and rhyme woods

Harald Rajamets 100

Short chronicles

Short chronicles

Defended doctoral theses

In memoriam Tatjana Vladõkina (8. IX 1953 – 4. V 2023)

Short chronicles

Defended doctoral theses