Aino Kallas: Negotiations with Modernity

Leena Kurvet-Käosaar and Lea Rojola Introduction: Aino Kallas, Negotiations with Modernity I ALONG THE TRAJECTORIES OF THE NEW WOMAN Tiina Kirss: Scheherazade's Whisper Contrapuntal Readings of Aino Kallas and Isak Dinesen Lea Rojola: “And she felt the desire to speak” Aino Kallas, Maie Merits, and the Female Voice Kukku Melkas: From Apocalypse to the New Paradise Early Ecological Thinking and Aino Kallas’ Work in the 1920s II CROSSING MODERNITY’S MASTER DISCOURSES Mirjam Hinrikus: Decadent Modernism and the Imprint of Taine in Aino Kallas’ Young Estonia Portraits and Trajectories Leena Kurvet-Käosaar: “The vitality of primeval peasant blood” The Hereditary Potential of Estonians in the Work of Aino Kallas Silja Vuorikuru: Following the Traces of Unknown Bathseba Liina Lukas: Goethe, Master! Reading Goethe with Aino Kallas and her Contemporaries Rein Undusk: Does Love Have An Essence? Existentialist Remarks on Aino Kallas’ Prose Ballads III LIFE ON THE BORDERS Sirje Olesk: Aino Kallas on the Boundaries of Finland, Estonia and the World Ritva Hapuli: “The suitcases in my room” Aino Kallas as a Traveller and a Travel Writer Maarit Leskelä-Kärki: Songs of Comfort and Lamentation Autobiographical Connections in the Texts of the Ageing Aino Kallas Kai Stahl and Tutta Palin: The Aino Kallas Iconography Interactive Self-Presentation Contributors