Oral Tradition and Book Culture

Pertti Anttonen · Cecilia af Forselles · Kirsti Salmi-Niklander

2018년 10월 · Studia Fennica Folkloristica 13권 · Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura

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Traditionally, oral traditions were considered to diffuse only orally, outside the influence of literature and other printed media. Eventually, more attention was given to interaction between literacy and orality, but it is only recently that oral tradition has come to be seen as a modern construct both conceptually and in terms of accessibility. Oral traditions cannot be studied independently from the culture of writing and reading.

Lately, a new interdisciplinary interest has risen to study interconnections between oral tradition and book culture. In addition to the use and dissemination of printed books, newspapers etc., book culture denotes manuscript media and the circulation of written documents of oral tradition in and through the archive, into published collections. Book culture also intertwines the process of framing and defining oral genres with literary interests and ideologies. In addition to writing and reading, the study of oral traditions must also take into consideration the culture of publishing.

The present volume highlights varied and selected aspects of the expanding field of research into oral tradition and book culture. The questions discussed include the following: How have printing and book publishing set terms for oral tradition scholarship? How have the practices of reading affected the circulation of oral traditions? Which books and publishing projects have played a key role in this and how? How have the written representations of oral traditions, as well as the roles of editors and publishers, introduced authorship to materials customarily regarded as anonymous and collective?

The editors represent some of the key institutions in the study of oral traditions in Finland: the University of Helsinki, the Finnish Literature Society, and the University of Eastern Finland. The authors are folklorists, anthropologists, historians and literary historians, and scholars in information studies from Finland, Sweden, Norway, Ireland, and the United States.

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Pertti Anttonen (http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4866-9910) is Professor of Cultural Studies, especially Folklore Studies at the University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu Campus (since 2014). His main interests in research and teaching include folklore and nationalism, politics of history, heritage and tradition, ethnopoetics and the textual representation of orality, and the rites of passage theory. He has published articles on these topics in both Finnish and international journals and research anthologies. His major publication so far is Tradition rough Modernity: Postmodernism and the Nation-State in Folklore Scholarship (2005), soon to be published in Greek and Chinese translation.

Cecilia af Forselles is Director of e Library of the Finnish Literature Society, PhD and Historian. Her recent research has dealt with literary culture and currents of thought, the cultural history of translations of the Kalevala, reading culture, changes in the academic community, and the rise of oral culture and the strengthening of natural history as topics of academic research in the 18th century. Her latest edited book The Emergence of Finnish Book and Reading Culture in the 1700s (2011) with Tuija Laine as well as her recent articles mainly deal with the history of the book and the press.

Kirsti Salmi-Niklander (http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0552-1801) is University Lecturer in Folklore Studies at the Department of Cultures, University of Helsinki. She has published a monograph, articles, edited books and theme issues in the elds of oral history research, working-class culture, immigrant culture and history of youth. Her long-term research has focused on hand-written newspapers as an alternative medium in 19th and early 20th-century Finland. One of her recent publications is the theme issue “International Inuences in Finnish Working-Class Literature and its Research” in Journal of Finnish Studies 18 (2) 2015, co-edited with Kati Launis.