Arne Merilai

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Arne Merilai

Arne Merilai (born April 27, 1961 in Kohtla-Järve ) is an Estonian literary scholar and writer.

Life

Merilai graduated from high school in 1979 in Kehra and then studied Estonian philology at the University of Tartu . After graduating in 1984, he worked for a year as a teacher at a Tartu grammar school, after which he took a doctoral position at the University of Tartu. From 1988 he worked at various research institutions, after receiving his doctorate in 1990, he taught at the University of Tartu. He spent the 2001-2002 academic year as a Fulbright Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley . He was then a literary professor at the University of Tartu, where he has held the Chair of Estonian Literature since 2011.

Merilai has been a member of the Estonian Writers' Union since 2001 .

Scientific work

In his scientific research, Merilai often deals with psychoanalytic methods and has looked at numerous Estonian authors from this point of view. His focus is on poetry. In doing so, he developed a theory of artistic linguistic usage, which he describes with the term “pragmapoetics”. The concepts of pragmatics and poetics known from philosophy, literary studies and linguistics are interwoven. This theory led to much detailed analysis of the poetry of individual poets.

Literary work

Merilai made his poetry debut in 1994 and published a first volume of poetry in 1998, followed by the next in 2001. Characteristic of his poetry are the many word games that begin with the anagram of his name in the title of the first collection: Merlini aare ('Merlin's treasure'). Many critics brought him close to Ilmar Laaban or Artur Alliksaar , as another critic affirmed. According to him, Merilai appears “like an ecologist roaming in a forest near the city. This forest does not consist of trees, bushes, mosses, mushrooms, etc., but of speech phenomena that follow different styles. ”The poet uses“ Estonian folk poetry and Artur Alliksaar ”as points of reference.

His only novel to date, the tyrant Oedipus , which has many postmodern elements and is characterized by lexical inventiveness, met with a great response . The first sentence of a review is already telling: “The tyrant Oedipus leads us in the improbable, but refreshing and unstoppable company of a feminist, a psychoanalyst, a junkist and an art historian and under the orgasmic-military (an expression of Marina Grišakova) observation of the Italian fascists to a symposium that took place in a gloomy crypt of Bertinoro Castle in 1938, where a mummy of King Oedipus, recently excavated and inhabited by a thousand year old mushroom cultures, is why it was still alive at a certain level and through a technological apparatus made for the respective case could also communicate in places. ”Another critic found the novel tiring on the one hand, but saw parallels to Umberto Eco on the other hand and admired the“ fireworks of linguistic puns, quotations and associations. ”

Awards

bibliography

Scientific work

  • Marie Underi “Õnnevarjutus”. Siseruumist arhitektuuriini I, II, in: Vikerkaar 7/1989, pp. 51-54; 8/1989, pp. 33-44.
  • Eesti ballaad 1900-1940 . Tartu: Tartu Ülikool 1991.
  • Emaleppi allikmäelt. Bernard Kangro kogutud luuletuste puhul, in: Keel ja Kirjandus 9/1991, pp. 513-522.
  • Ropp ja harras Ivar Grünthal , in: Keel ja Kirjandus 4/1993, pp. 193–198.
  • Kivikõueköha. Ilmar Laabani luule psühhoanalüüs, in: Keel ja Kirjandus 5/1993, pp. 257-263.
  • (in cooperation with Õnne Kepp) Luule. Eesti pagulaskirjandus 1944–1992 . Tallinn: Eesti Teaduste Akadeemia Underi ja Tuglase Kirjanduskeskus 1994.
  • Susi ehk kuidas Bernard Kangrot unes naha, in: Vikerkaar 2/1994, pp. 54–59.
  • Tartu tütar Soome sillal. Sissejuhatus Koidula psühhoanalüüsi, in: Vikerkaar 6/1994, pp. 53-59.
  • Artur Alliksaare luule pragmaatika I, in: Akadeemia 10/1995, pp. 2086-2111.
  • (together with Luule Epner (ed.)): Kirjandusteadus: Mõte ja ulm, rakendus ja uurimus . Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus 1996.
  • Kõnetegude teooria. Artur Alliksaare luule pragmaatika II, in: Akadeemia 10/1998, pp. 2019–2057; 11/1998, pp. 2263-2298.
  • Ivaskist või Malinist . Luulekeele reevolutsioon, in: Keel ja Kirjandus 3/1998, pp. 202-206.
  • (Ed.): Eesti ballaad: Antoloogia: XVII – XX sajand . Tallinn: Tänapäev 2003.
  • (Ed.): Pragmapoeetika: Kahe konteksti teooria . Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus 2003 (Studia litteraria Estonica 6).
  • (together with Anneli Saro and Epp Annus ): Poeetika. Gümnaasiumiõpik . Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus. 2003, 2007, 2011.
  • Eepos - pikem (pigem) lugulaul, in: Keel ja Kirjandus 4/2004, pp. 241-250.
  • Sisesiire. Ene Mihkelsoni poeetikast, in: Keel ja Kirjandus 12/2004, pp. 873-881.
  • (Ed.) Päevad on laused: Ene Mihkelson . Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus 2005.
  • Viivi Luik linnulennul, in: Keel ja Kirjandus 9/2006, pp. 689–713.
  • (Ed.) Looming - olemise kehtestamine: Viivi Luik . Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus 2007 (Studia litteraria Estonica 9).
  • (Ed.) Inimesepoeg valgel laeval: Uku Masing 100 . Tartu: Eesti Kirjandusmuuseum, Tartu Ülikool 2010.
  • Õnne tähendus: Kriitilisi emotsioone 1990–2010 . Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus 2011 (Studia litteraria Estonica 10).
  • Vokimeister: Kriitilisi Konstruktsioone 1990–2011 . Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus 2011 (Studia litteraria Estonica 11).
  • (Ed.) Täiskui. Andres Ehin . Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus 2012 (Studia litteraria Estonica 12).
  • Estonian Poetic Surrealism: Laaban and Ehin, in: interlitteraria 17 (2012), pp. 167-179.
  • Of Hard Joy: Half a Century of Viivi Luik's Creations. Poetry, in: interlitteraria 18/1 (2013), pp. 211–225.
  • Of Hard Joy: Half a Century of Viivi Luik's Creations. Prose, in: interlitteraria 18/2 (2013), pp. 335-348.
  • (Ed.) Thomas Salumets: Mõju mõnu . Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus 2014 (Studia litteraria Estonica 14).
  • Tammsaare aga-ometi , in: Keel ja Kirjandus 5/2015, pp. 297-315.
  • (Ed.) Cornelius Hasselblatt : Eemalt vaadates. Veerand sajandit eesti kirjandusega . Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus 2015 (Studia litteraria Estonica 15).
  • Kalevipoeg : Aspects of Genre and Authorship, in: Journal of Baltic Studies 46/1 (2015), pp. 1–14 ( doi : 10.1080 / 01629778.2015.1027936 )

Literary work

  • Merlini aare. Luulemärss 1994-1998 ('Merlins Schatz. Lyrikranzen 1994-1998'). Tartu: Ilmamaa 1998. 111 pp.
  • Tolmutort (' Dust Cake '). Tallinn: Tuum 2001. 87 pp.
  • Türann Oidipus ('Tyrann Oedipus)'. Tallinn: Verb 2009. 422 pp.

literature

  • Tõnu Kaalep: Kõvad kaaned pehmele sisule, in: Vikerkaar 2-3 / 1999, pp. 168–169.
  • Ilmar Mikiver : Keldi Orfeus Tartus, in: mana 59 (1999), p. 63.
  • Jaan Malin: Arne Merilai "Tolmu tort", in: Vikerkaar 7/2001, pp. 105-107.
  • Karl Martin Sinijärv : Valdab tahti, tunneb teemat (Näidend nullis vaatuses), in: Looming 3/2002, pp. 464-465.
  • Jaak Tomberg: Ükski inimene ei ole saar. Aga meri on lai, in: Vikerkaar 10-11 / 2009, pp. 158–162.
  • Leo Luks: Kurnav kirjandus, in: Looming 8/2010, pp. 1174–1176.
  • Jaanus Adamson: Türann ja vabastaja, in: Keel ja Kirjandus 3/2010, pp. 219–223.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eesti kirjanike leksikon. Koostanud Oskar Kruus yes Heino Puhvel. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 2000, pp. 333-334.
  2. ↑ Ilmar Mikiver: Keldi Orfeus Tartus, in: mana 59 (1999), p. 63.
  3. ↑ Jaan Malin: Arne Merilai "Tolmu tort", in: Vikerkaar 7/2991, p. 106.
  4. ↑ Jaak Tomberg: Ükski inimene ei ole saar. Aga meri on lai, in: Vikerkaar 10-11 / 2009, pp. 158–159.
  5. ↑ Leo Luks: Kurnav kirjandus in: Looming 8/2010, p 1175th
personal data
SURNAME Merilai, Arne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian literary scholar and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Kohtla-Järve