Updated 12/2/10

SCAND 340

Kalevala

Autumn 2010

Prof. Andrew Nestingen

Raitt Hall 305P

Office Hours: Th.1:30-3:30

Tel. 694-9100

Email: akn@uw.edu

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Course Schedule

Week 1 Introduction to Finnish Folk Poetry and Kalevala

Th. 9/30

Syllabus Review and Course Introduction

Week 2 Kalevala as Oral Poetry and Literature

Tue. 10/5

Lecture: How to Read Oral Poetry -- Evan Wright

How to Read an Oral Poem; "The Cosmos: Introduction"

Keywords: Cosmology, orality, repetition, alliteration

Discussion Questions

Th. 10/7

Lecture: What is Kalevala?

"The Storyteller"

Keywords: Elias Lönnrot, Finnish autonomous grand duchy (1809-1917), epic

Discussion Questions

Week 3 Väinämöinen and the Sampo

Tue. 10/12

Lecture: Väinämöinen and Aino

Keywords: Gender, Väinämöinen

Discussion Questions

Th. 10/14

Lecture: Väinämöinen and the Sampo

Keywords: Totem, Symbol

Discussion Questions

Response Paper #1 Questions

Week 4 Shamanism and Weddings

Tue. 10/19

Lecture: Väinämöinen the Shaman -- Evan Wright

Keywords: Shamanism, Animism, Singing

Discussion Questions

Th. 10/21

Lecture: Weddings

Keywords: Rite of passage, Marriage

Discussion Questions

Response Paper #1 Drop Box

Week 5 Kullervo and Lemminkäinen

Tue. 10/26

Lecture: Kullervo -- Evan Wright

Keywords: Sacrifice, tragedy

Discussion Questions

Th. 10/28

Lecture: Lemminkäinen

Keywords: Seducer, love

Discussion Questions

**Week 6 Kalevala's Trouble with Sex and Gender**

Tue. 11/2

Video: Troublemaker's Mother--Nick DiMartino

Mid-Term Review Sheet

Th. 11/4

Lecture: Kalevala, Virgin Birth, and Väinämöinen's Departure

Keywords: Allegory, History

Week 7 Mid-Term Exam

Tue. 11/9	Mid-Term Exam
Th. 11/11	NO CLASS -- Veterans' Day

Week 8 Folklore Traditions to Identity Construction

Tue. 11/16

Lecture: Kalevala's Legacy in the Arts

Reading: What are Kalevala Images Built From?

Keywords: Neo-romanticism, nationalism

Th. 11/18

Viewing: Pathfinder

Week 9 Pathfinder

Tue. 11/23

View and Discuss Pathfinder and Intro to the Sami

Sami, Cultural Revitalization

"Folklore, Boundaries, and Audience in The Pathfinder"

Th. 11/25

NO CLASS -- Thanksgiving Holiday

**Week 10 Troll: Choose Your Own Epic**

Tue. 11/30

Lecture: Eco-literature and Finnish Folklore -- Evan Wright

Keywords: Postmodernism, nature, eco-literature

Th. 12/2

Lecture: Johanna Sinisalo and Troll -- Special Guest, Sanna Karkulehto, University of Oulu/Rice University

Week 11 From Epic to Singing Revolution

Tue. 12/7

Lecture: The Baltic Singing Revolutions

Th. 12/9

Course Evaluations