Thomas A. DuBois

University of Wisconsin-Madison
 

Literary History is a strong interest of mine, and has figured in a number of my books and articles. I am also involved in an extensive literary history project coordinated by Steven Sondrup (BYU) and Mark Sandberg (UC-Berkeley) entitled Comparative History of Nordic Literary Cultures. Together with Dan Ringgaard, I am co-editing Volume II of the four-volume series, a volume that focuses on place as a device and factor in Nordic literary production.

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Literary History

Finnish Folk Poetry and the Kalevala. New York: Garland Publications, 1995.
Lyric, Meaning and Audience in the Oral Tradition of Northern Europe. Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 2006.
co-editor.The Nordic Storyteller: Essays in Honour of NIels Ingwersen. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009.

 

"Taking Place. Place in the Construction of History in Nordic Literature" in The Angel of History: Literature, History and Culture. Ed. Vesa Haapala, Hannamari Helander, Anna Hollsten, Pirjo Lyytikäinen and Rita Paqvalén. Helsinki: Department of Finnish Literature, University of Helsinki. Pp. 83-101.

"Kaksikymmentä ja yksi Thirty Years Later: Paavo Haavikko's Kalevala Rewrite and the Epic Genre" in One and Twenty, Paavo Haavikko. Beaverton, ON: Aspasia Books, 2007.

"'I'm a Lumberjack and I'm Okay...': Popular Film as Collective Therapy in Markku Pölönen's Kuningasjätkä (1998)" in Transnational Cinema in a Global North: Nordic Cinema in Transition. Ed. Andrew Nestingen and Trevor G. Elkington. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2005. Pp. 243-260.

"Writing of Women, Not Nations: The Development of a Feminist Agenda in the Novellas of Aino Kallas" Scandinavian Studies 76/2 (2004): 205-32.

"The Little Song-Smith: A Printed Folksong Anthology and Its Reception among Ingrian Peasants, 1849-1900" in Folk Song: Tradition, Revival and Re-Creation. Ed. Ian Russell and David Atkinson. Aberdeen: The Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen, 2004. Pp. 41-52.

"A History Seen: The Uses of Illumination in Flateyjarbók" Journal of English and Germanic Philology 103(1)(2004): 1-52.

"Narrators in Two Epics: The Narrator's Voice in Kalevala and Kalevipoeg" Oral Tradition 15(1)(March 2000): 126-144.

"'That Strain Again!, or, Twelfth Night, a Folkloristic Approach" Arv 56(2000): 35-56.

"Folklore, Boundaries and Audience in The Pathfinder" in Sami Folkloristics. Ed. Juha Pentikäinen. Turku: NIF, 2000. Pp. 255-274.

"From Maria to Marjatta: The Transformations of an Oral Poem in Elias Lönnrot's Kalevala" Oral Tradition 8(2)(1993): 247-288.

"A Farmwife's Lot: The Politics of Portrayal in Ilmari Kianto's Punainen viiva and Ryysyrannan Jooseppi" Scandinavian Studies 65(4)(Fall 1993): 521-538.