Viola Capkova
Biographic Data
| ID | 4185949 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Viola Capkova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Viola |
| FAMILY NAME | Capkova |
| SIGNATURE | CAPKOVA V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Turku |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0629-1182 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Awakenings
Shared Experience of Reading Literature with Adult Language Learners
Reading experience has been researched and defined, in various ways and contexts, as an emotional, intellectual, or even physical event. The role of language in reading experience has been recognized, but the way reading experience is connected to language acquisition and plays the role of a formative experience has not been dealt with in literary studies. In this article, I reflect on the shared reading experience of adult learners of Finnish wi…
Gendering seekers and upstarts in early twentieth-century Finnish literature
The search for truth and spirituality, intertwined with the search for one's self, has been a perennial theme in arts and literature. In some works of Finnish literature at the turn of the twentieth century, the figure of a person seeking for spiritual fulfilment tended to intertwine with that of the upstart (nousukas in Finnish). At first sight, it might seem odd that these two figures should overlap in literary works, but as I show, especially …
Zbornik konference Jezikovne tehnologije in digitalna humanistika
With this year's conference we are celebrating the 20th anniversary since the first conference »Language technologies« which took place in 1998 in Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana and was organized by Tomaž Erjavec, Vojko Gorjanc, Jerneja Žganec Gros and Anica Rant. The topics of the first conference were the development and application of language technologies for Slovene and directions for the future. 26 papers were presented, dealing with speech techn…
Transnational Reception
This article investigates the transnational and translingual reception of Nordic women’s writing (among authors writing in Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish) in a multilingual country, Finland, around the turn of the nineteenth and the twentieth century. This contribution is a component of our work for the international Joint Research Project, Travelling TexTs. We concentrate on the presence of Nordic women’s writing in various languages in fin de s…
Decadent New Woman
The notion of woman acquired a variety of- often contradictory- meanings in turn-of-thecentury art, especially in the Decadent trend in art and literature, which was often incompatible with the women's movement. The notions of artistic Decadence and women's emancipation were further complicated by nationalist ambitions in the European nations aspiring to independence. In my article, I analyse the tension between the Decadent aesthetics and the Ne…
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Decadent New Woman
The notion of woman acquired a variety of- often contradictory- meanings in turn-of-thecentury art, especially in the Decadent trend in art and literature, which was often incompatible with the women's movement. The notions of artistic Decadence and women's emancipation were further complicated by nationalist ambitions in the European nations aspiring to independence. In my article, I analyse the tension between the Decadent aesthetics and the Ne…
Transnational Reception
This article investigates the transnational and translingual reception of Nordic women’s writing (among authors writing in Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish) in a multilingual country, Finland, around the turn of the nineteenth and the twentieth century. This contribution is a component of our work for the international Joint Research Project, Travelling TexTs. We concentrate on the presence of Nordic women’s writing in various languages in fin de s…
Zbornik konference Jezikovne tehnologije in digitalna humanistika
With this year's conference we are celebrating the 20th anniversary since the first conference »Language technologies« which took place in 1998 in Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana and was organized by Tomaž Erjavec, Vojko Gorjanc, Jerneja Žganec Gros and Anica Rant. The topics of the first conference were the development and application of language technologies for Slovene and directions for the future. 26 papers were presented, dealing with speech techn…
Gendering seekers and upstarts in early twentieth-century Finnish literature
The search for truth and spirituality, intertwined with the search for one's self, has been a perennial theme in arts and literature. In some works of Finnish literature at the turn of the twentieth century, the figure of a person seeking for spiritual fulfilment tended to intertwine with that of the upstart (nousukas in Finnish). At first sight, it might seem odd that these two figures should overlap in literary works, but as I show, especially …
Shared Experience of Reading Literature with Adult Language Learners
Reading experience has been researched and defined, in various ways and contexts, as an emotional, intellectual, or even physical event. The role of language in reading experience has been recognized, but the way reading experience is connected to language acquisition and plays the role of a formative experience has not been dealt with in literary studies. In this article, I reflect on the shared reading experience of adult learners of Finnish wi…
Awakenings
Art (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Cultural History and Identity Formation (1 work)