Jarkko Toikkanen

University of Oulu · Department of English Philology

The introduction presents the key questions of the volume and introduces previous studies on the north before embarking on a dialogue on the concepts of mode, medium, and interaction between the editors. The articles are summarized in the introductions on the main sections, and some thoughts on further interdisciplinary research in the field are pr...

Marko Hautalan Leväluhta (2018) kertoo Vallin perheen useissa aikatasoissa liikkuvan synkän pohjalaisen kronikan. Äärimmäinen black metal -alakulttuuri nousee tarinan keskeiseksi ilmiöksi tapahtumien kerratessa ja heijastaessa vanhoja pelkoja, joista sikiää nykyhetkessä uusia. Tutkin intermediaalisen kokemuksen käsitteen avulla, mitä sanoilla esitt...

I analyze H. P. Lovecraft’s technique of producing the experience of the endless north and how the sense of motion and balance may be affected through the rhetorical device of topothesia, or the description of an imaginary place, in the short novel The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (1943). Worlds and realities are created through accounts of locati...

The sense of touch, a less studied aspect in previous scholarship on "The Pit and the Pendulum" (1842), is peculiar to how Poe's story is experienced. Along the way, both for the narrator telling his story in retrospect and for the reader responding to his words, there are strange and awful things to be felt-some of which go unseen, others appear i...

The article investigates the rhetorical means of mediating affective experience in occasioned storytelling. The completion of this article has been supported by The Emil Aaltonen Foundation and The Academy of Finland project (285144) The Literary in Life and The Academy of Finland project (326645) European Solidarities in Turmoil. We are interested...

In paranormal reality television, the medial evidence of senses adding to the visual and auditory may produce the most compelling intermedial experience. When little can be seen or heard, the lasting impact of a ghost hunting show may rely on what it makes the audience feel through the sense of touch. Even if the touch perceptions were imagined – o...

This essay reflects on the origins of an edited book that brought seventeen authors together to define experience. We co-create the experience in the form of a dialogue between us, the book’s two editors, and argue for the sake of words in the experience. We explore what it was like to start and lead a process that supported “making science” as a c...

The article investigates bodily rhetoric in mediating affective experience in conversational storytelling We explore a case of a TV interview after the 9/11. Deploying research on multimodal interaction and intermediality, our empirical analysis explicates how the teller's body, and not just words, build action, convey affective meaning, and resemi...

The article discusses basic questions of narrative studies and definitions of narrative from a historical and conceptual perspective in order to map the terrain between different narratologies. The focus is placed on the question of how fiction interacts with other realms of our lives or, more specifically, how reading fiction both involves and aff...

Medioista ja uusista esittämisen muodoista keskusteltaessa kirjallisuudentutkijat kohtaavat käsitteellisen sekamelskan, jossa vilahtelevat termit mediaalisuus ja modaalisuus ja etuliitteet kuten inter-, trans-, multi- ja re-/de-. Mitä tutkija tarkoittaa, kun hän käyttää jotain käsitettä, ja miten käsiteyhdistelmät eroavat toisistaan? Maailmalla asi...

“The Tell-Tale Heart” is a much-investigated tale of murder and disturbing report. In this article, I aim to show how sounds enforce meaning in the story, and how two rhetorical devices—ekphrasis and hypotyposis—can be used to highlight the different ways the story can be interpreted. Following the strategy lately championed by Brett Zimmerman, the...

The possibility of transcendence in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and the literature of Heinrich von Kleist plays at the limits of what can be presented in language. Starting out from the former's objective to establish a new idealism, this essay observes the importance of the rhetorical device of hypotyposis- the verbal description of visual ima...

Anna Helle Nykykirjallisuutemme kirjallisuushistoriallinen kartoitus Mika Hallila, Yrjö Hosiaisluoma, Sanna Karkulehto, Leena Kirstinä & Jussi Ojajärvi (toim.): Suomen nykykirjallisuus 1–2. Heta Marttinen Perinnetietoisesti perinteitä vastaan Tuva Korsström: Från Lexå till Glitterscenen. Finlandssvenska tidsbilder, läsningar, författarporträtt 1960...

This book is an exploration of the phenomenon of horror from an unusual angle. Focusing on reading specific examples of literature from Romanticism to Modernism, the study brings together the phenomenon of horror with the topical concepts of experience and intermediality and highlights the complex relations they present.

If the connection from Kleist and Hoffmann to Frost could be traced through idealist and dark romantic leads, Yeats’s part in the same legacy, and specifically the English variety, takes shape in relation to two main influences: William Blake and the Pre-Raphaelite movement of the mid-nineteenth century. In the following, I will first tease out the...

In the first case study, the theoretical framework outlined in the opening chapters will be put into practice through the words and images of Heinrich von Kleist’s famous essay on the marionette theatre. Writing in the context of German Romanticism, Kleist was a torn figure who, on the one hand, believed strongly in the rational tenets of the Enlig...

The fear predicated in the title of Robert Frost’s dramatic poem ‘The Fear’ (1915) is an intermedial affect experienced in view of a radical incongruity of word and image. The mismatch becomes evident in the poem as verbal reason attempts to overcome visual imagination but fails to do so and instead accelerates the inherent unnaturalness of the uns...

Throughout this book, the main objective has been to argue how studying the experience of horror from the aspect of words and images in literature can give rise to significant claims. First of all, I hope to have shown that horror is by no means limited to the stock features of a certain genre or subculture, and that it is a big mistake to preclude...

In Thomas Ligotti’s short story ‘The Clown Puppet’ first published in 1996, the anonymous protagonist is visited at night by a strange apparition at the medicine shop in which he works.1 The creature is described in meticulous detail — starting out from its having ‘all the appearances of an antiquated marionette, a puppet figure of some archaic typ...

E. T. A. Hoffmann’s short story ‘Der Sandmann’ was originally published in 1817 in the first part of the collection Nachtstücke (Night Pieces).1 The story tells the tale of Nathanael, a young student who, away from home, gets caught in a train of strange events that recall something that happened in his childhood and disturb his state of mind in an...

It was noted in the previous chapter how, in Burke’s time, the study of aesthetics, along with the sublime and beautiful, became warranted as a new kind of inquiry. As Martin Jay has noted, once the belief that ‘beauty was an objective quality of objects’ began to lose its credibility, ‘the door was open for the relocation of aesthetic value in bod...

The paradox of visual culture is that it is everywhere and nowhere at once. We live in a world saturated with screens, images and objects, all demanding that we look at them. Work is mediated by screens and demands the virtuoso skills of a performing artist. Religions create spectacles of veiled women or of anti-evolution theme parks. At the same t...

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