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Article: WORLD LITERATURE IN REVIEW - FINNO-UGRIC & BALTIC LANGUAGES.(Review)
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- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- June 22, 1999
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Finnish
A History of Finland's Literature. George C. Schoolfield, ed. Lincoln. University of Nebraska Press. 1998 (released 1999). xxxi + 877 pages. $60. ISBN 0-8032-4189-5.
Unlike the first three volumes in the Histories of Scandinavian Literature series, which are histories of Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish literatures respectively and are so named, the fourth volume is titled A History of Finland's Literature rather than "A History of Finnish Literature." Thus the work claims to represent the histories of both Finnish and Finland-Swedish literatures while stressing the separateness of the two-or, in the words of George C. Schoolfield, its editor, ...