Marja Sorvari
Biographic Data
| ID | 5934229 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marja Sorvari |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marja |
| FAMILY NAME | Sorvari |
| SIGNATURE | SORVARI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Eastern Finland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3311-726X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Russia in translation
The reception of post-Soviet Russian fiction through the peritexts of Finnish translations
This article is based on research addressing the reception of post-Soviet Russian fiction in the twenty-first century (2000–2023) through Finnish translations and the notions of Russia and Russian literature mediated through them. The investigation of translated fiction draws on imagology, i.e. the study of images and cross-national perceptions in literary representations. Focusing on the peritexts, a subcategory of paratexts coined by Genette (1…
Multilingual Russian Writers in Finland
This article investigates literary texts in Swedish, Finnish and Russian by two Russianborn writers living in Finland, Zinaida Lindn and Polina Kopylova, from the viewpoint of literary translingualism and self-translation
Narratives of Displacement
This essay discusses representations of migrant experiences of displacement by Russian women writers Liudmila Ulitskaya, Zinaida Lindén, and Marina Palei. The theoretical approach is guided by feminist geography and narrative studies, with attention to the conceptualization of space and place through embodied everyday experiences. The authors represent different writerly positions with which today’s Russophone writers engage, including multilingu…
On the Margins and Beyond
This article addresses fictional characters who can be characterized as vulnerable, boundary, or liminal figures in novels by Svetlana Vasilenko, Dina Rubina, and Elena Chizhova. It will be suggested that these heroines represent liminal subjectivities; subjects‐in‐process, subjects in the process of becoming. The concept of liminality has attained much attention in contemporary literary scholarship, especially in the context of postcolonial lite…
To Tell the Truth as I Understand It‘
The article discusses Liudmila Ulitskaia's 2006 novel, Daniel′ Shtain, perevodchik (Daniel Stein, Interpreter, 2011) from the perspective of lived religion. It demonstrates how the novel's multi-voiced composition brings the characters' subjective experiences of spirituality and religiosity to the foreground. The novel's approach to religion is discussed in connection to post-secularism and post-atheism in Russia, including critical comments on i…
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To Tell the Truth as I Understand It‘
The article discusses Liudmila Ulitskaia's 2006 novel, Daniel′ Shtain, perevodchik (Daniel Stein, Interpreter, 2011) from the perspective of lived religion. It demonstrates how the novel's multi-voiced composition brings the characters' subjective experiences of spirituality and religiosity to the foreground. The novel's approach to religion is discussed in connection to post-secularism and post-atheism in Russia, including critical comments on i…
On the Margins and Beyond
This article addresses fictional characters who can be characterized as vulnerable, boundary, or liminal figures in novels by Svetlana Vasilenko, Dina Rubina, and Elena Chizhova. It will be suggested that these heroines represent liminal subjectivities; subjects‐in‐process, subjects in the process of becoming. The concept of liminality has attained much attention in contemporary literary scholarship, especially in the context of postcolonial lite…
Multilingual Russian Writers in Finland
This article investigates literary texts in Swedish, Finnish and Russian by two Russianborn writers living in Finland, Zinaida Lindn and Polina Kopylova, from the viewpoint of literary translingualism and self-translation
Narratives of Displacement
This essay discusses representations of migrant experiences of displacement by Russian women writers Liudmila Ulitskaya, Zinaida Lindén, and Marina Palei. The theoretical approach is guided by feminist geography and narrative studies, with attention to the conceptualization of space and place through embodied everyday experiences. The authors represent different writerly positions with which today’s Russophone writers engage, including multilingu…
The reception of post-Soviet Russian fiction through the peritexts of Finnish translations
This article is based on research addressing the reception of post-Soviet Russian fiction in the twenty-first century (2000–2023) through Finnish translations and the notions of Russia and Russian literature mediated through them. The investigation of translated fiction draws on imagology, i.e. the study of images and cross-national perceptions in literary representations. Focusing on the peritexts, a subcategory of paratexts coined by Genette (1…
Russia in translation
Political science (5 works) · Art (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)