{"id":804,"date":"2024-04-03T23:40:21","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/bird\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T00:09:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T21:09:01","slug":"bird","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/anthologies\/english\/bird\/","title":{"rendered":"An Introduction to Estonian Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAn Introduction to Estonian Literature. Translated and edited by Hilary Bird. Bloomington, Ind.: Slavica, 2018, xv+486 pp.<\/span><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tProfiles about authors written by Hilary Bird.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tContents:<\/span><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tForeword and Acknowledgments
Introduction<\/em>
The Oral Tradition, When I Escape the Manor; A Dull Life Is a Sorry Thing; Brother\u2019s War Song<\/strong> (extract).
Reiner Brocmann, How Blessed Is the Man<\/strong>. [A poem.]
K\u00e4su Hans, Ah Me! Poor Tartu Town<\/strong>!. [\u2018Oh! ma vaene Tardo-liin\u2019, a poem.]
Kulli J\u00fcri, Song 64: What Did Jesu\u2019s Little Tom Tit Do?; Song 81: God Invites All the People; Song 83: Towns and Lands Will Grow and Stand<\/strong>. [Poems.]
Joachim Gottlieb Schwabe, Spring Song; The Song of the Estonian Farmhand<\/strong>. [Poems.]
Otto Wilhelm Masing, Bruin<\/strong>. [\u2018P\u00e4ts\u2019, a poem.]
Kristjan Jaak Peterson, Ode to the Moon; The Singer<\/strong>. [Poems.]
Friedrich Robert Faehlmann, Dawn and Dusk<\/strong>. [A folk story.]
Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, The Son of Kalev<\/strong> (extracts):\u00a0Invocation;\u00a0The Second Tale:\u00a0The Kalevipoeg Stories;\u00a0The Sixth Tale:\u00a0The Sword Celebration;\u00a0The Eighth Tale:\u00a0The Stone-throwing Competition; Kalevipoeg Ploughs the Lands;\u00a0The Sixteenth Tale. Home;\u00a0The Seventeenth Tale. Kalevipoeg Rides to War;\u00a0The Nineteenth Tale. Siuru;\u00a0The Nineteenth Tale. Varrak and the Loss of the Book of Liberty.
Jakob Hurt, 1870. Our Schooled and Educated Men<\/strong> (abridged). [A speech.]
Carl Robert Jakobson, Arthur and Anna, or The Old and the New<\/strong> (abridged): Act I-III. [\u2018Artur ja Anna\u2019, a play.]
Lydia Koidula, A Mother\u2019s Heart; The Arrival of Spring; Thoughts on Toompea; My Country, They Have Buried You<\/strong>. [Poems.]
Juhan Kunder, Rehepapp the Trickster<\/strong>. [\u2018Vigur rehepapp\u2019, a fairy tale.]
August Kitzberg, The Werewolf<\/strong>. Act I-V. [\u2018Libahunt\u2019, a play.]
Karl Eduard S\u00f6\u00f6t, A Game of Chess; The Spring; The Supervisor;\u00a0The Most Precious Possession<\/strong>. [Poems.]
Eduard Bornh\u00f6he, The Avenger<\/strong> (extracts): Chapters XIII, XIV, XVI. [\u2018Tasuja\u2019, a story.]
Juhan Liiv, Snowflake; I Saw Estonia Yesterday; The Bees Fly to the Hive; Cold<\/strong>. [Poems.]
Anna Haava, The Meadow Flower; I Cannot Be Quiet; Oh, My Homeland!; We (1906); Only Ilmar; You, Sodom and Gomorrah!; We (1948)<\/strong>. [Poems.]
Eduard Vilde, The Mahtra Rebellion<\/strong> (extract). [\u2018Mahtra s\u00f5da\u2019, a novel.]
Ernst Enno, Homesickness; The Wind Walks; On a White Night in Tartu<\/strong>. [Poems.]
Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Love; The New Oldpagan of Hellbottom Farm<\/strong> (extract). [\u2018Armastus\u2019, a miniature, \u2018P\u00f5rgup\u00f5hja uus Vanapagan\u2019, a novel.]
Aino Kallas, Gerdruta Carponai<\/strong>. [A story.]
Mait Metsanurk, At the Umera River<\/strong> (extracts): Chapters XX, XXI. [\u2018\u00dcmera j\u00f5el\u2019, a novel.]
Marie Under, Summer Night; Lilac Time I; On Vaestepatuste Street; Mandrake Berries; The Dream Journey<\/strong>. [Poems.]
Gustav Suits, Fire of Life; The Men; The Grave of the Wind; Now Comes the Night<\/strong>. [Poems.]
Friedebert Tuglas, Lembitu; Little Illimar<\/strong> (extract). [\u2018Lembitu\u2019, a miniature; \u2018V\u00e4ike Illimar\u2019, a novel.]
Oskar Luts, The Cabbage<\/strong>. [\u2018Kapsapea\u2019, a play.]
Johannes Vares (Barbarus), The Creations; Me and Paris<\/strong> (extract). [Poems.]
Henrik Visnapuu, Third Letter to Ing; Resignation; October Night in the City; Pierrot; Christmas Night<\/strong>. [Poems.]
August Gailit, The Last Romantic<\/strong>. [\u2018Viimne romantik\u2019, a short story.]
Johannes Semper, Pierrot Despairs; How Would You Live?<\/strong>. [Poems.]
Peet Vallak, For Someone Else<\/strong>. [\u2018Teise eest\u2019, a short story.]
Albert Kivikas, Flying Pigs; The Names on the Memorial<\/strong> (extract). [\u2018Lendavad sead\u2019, a short story; \u2018Nimed marmortahvlil\u2019, a novel.]
Juhan Jaik, Midsummer Night<\/strong>. [\u2018Jaani\u00f6\u00f6\u2019, a short story.]
Juhan S\u00fctiste, The World Is Turning East<\/strong>, extract. [\u2018Maakera p\u00f6\u00f6rdub itta\u2019, a long poem.]
Hugo Raudsepp, Mikum\u00e4rdi Farm<\/strong>. Act I. [\u2018Mikum\u00e4rdi\u2019, a play.]
Heiti Talvik, It Was in Autumn; Hangover Meditations; Phoenix<\/strong>. [Poems.]
August Jakobson, For the Future<\/strong>. [\u2018Tuleviku nimel\u2019, a short story.]
Betti Alver, Iron Heaven; The Debt; Captain Oleander<\/strong>. [Poems.]
Uku Masing, Child of Man on the White Ship<\/strong>. [A poem.]
Hans Leberecht, The Light in Koordi Village<\/strong> (extract). [\u2018Valgus Koordis\u2019, a novel.]
Bernard Kangro, Hunger; The Frozen Fountains<\/strong> (extract). [\u2018N\u00e4lg\u2019, a poem; \u2018J\u00e4\u00e4l\u00e4tted\u2019, a novel.]
Karl Ristikivi, The Garden<\/strong>. Chapter X (extract); Ferns; H\u00e5rsfj\u00e4rden, a Fantasy in G-minor<\/strong>. [\u2018Rohtaed\u2019, a novel; poems.]
Kersti Merilaas, The Last Boat; Can You Hear the Call of Spring; Old Wine in New Vessels<\/strong>. [Poems.]
Paul Kuusberg, The Rusty Watering Can<\/strong>. [\u2018Roostetanud kastekann\u2019, a short story.]
Debora Vaarandi, Saaremaa Waltz; Simple Things; The Garden<\/strong>. [Poems.]
Jaan Kross, Between Three Plagues\u00a0<\/strong>(extract). [\u2018Kolme katku vahel\u2019, a novel.]
Juhan Smuul, The Holiday Makers<\/strong>. [\u2018Suvitajad\u2019, a short story.]
Artur Alliksaar, Sun Squanderers<\/strong>. [A poem.]
Hando Runnel, Over the Hill Went a Woman with a Cow; The Song of the Free<\/strong> (extract). [Poems.]
Jaan Isotamm, I; Not Yet; Matador<\/strong>. [Poems.]
Jaan Kaplinski, Vercingetorix Said; I Am the Spring in Tartu<\/strong>. [Poems.]
Paul-Eerik Rummo, Run, Free Child; Song of the Whore; The Sender\u2019s Address<\/strong>. [Poems.]
Mati Unt, Murder in the Hotel<\/strong> (extract). [\u2018M\u00f5rv hotellis\u2019, a story.]
Maimu Berg, She\u2019s Gone<\/strong>. [\u2018On l\u00e4inud\u2019, a short story.]
Viivi Luik, The Seventh Spring of Peace<\/strong> (extract); What Shines Through Time<\/strong>. [\u2018Seitsmes rahukevad\u2019, a novel; a poem.]
Juhan Viiding, When a Child on TV; Cradle Song; The Wish<\/strong>. [Poems.]
Doris Kareva, Four Voices for a Voyager: Nausicaa, Circe, Calypso, Penelope<\/strong>. [Poems.]
Merle J\u00e4\u00e4ger, My Way (sic<\/em>); Protest (sic<\/em>)<\/strong>. [Poems.]
Postmodernism and Postcolonialism: \u201cThe Manifesto of Congealed Blood\u201d.<\/em>
Sven Kivisildnik et al<\/em>, The Manifesto of Congealed Blood<\/strong>. [\u2018H\u00fc\u00fcbinud vere manifest\u2019.]
Recommended Reading.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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