Piret Viires

Piret Viires (born August 11, 1963 in Tallinn ) is an Estonian literary scholar .

Life

Piret Viires graduated from high school in Tallinn in 1981 and studied Estonian Philology at the University of Tartu from 1981 to 1987 . After graduating, she worked as a literary scholar at the Institute for Language and Literature of the Estonian Academy of Sciences and, after its division into an Institute for Language and one for Literature (1993) at the Under and Tuglas Literature Center . From 1995 to 2007 she was editor for literary theory and literary criticism at the magazine Keel ja Kirjandus , and since 1997 she has also been an employee of the Estonian Writers' Association . From 1993 to 1995 she also headed the newly founded publishing house Tuum . In 2000 she obtained her master's degree from the University of Tartu , in 2006 she was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. Since 2008 she has been Professor of Estonian Literature at Tallinn University .

Viires has been a member of the Estonian Writers' Union since 1995 .

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Viires has worked on different periods of 20th century Estonian literature, but her research is increasingly focused on contemporary literature. In particular, she examines the latest trends, such as ethno-futurism . Her specialty is postmodern literature in Estonia.

Piret Viires has also written a volume of short stories: Tallinna ja Tartu vahel ('Between Tallinn and Tartu'). Of the stories that take place in the student environment, two have also been published in German:

• Volli (translated by Aet Bergmann) and Between Tallinn and Tartu (translated by Axel Jagau), in: Estonia 3–4 / 1990, pp. 130–135.

bibliography

Monographs

• Postmodernism Eesti kirjanduskultuuris . Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus 2006. 257 pp.
• Eesti kirjandus yes postmodernism . Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus 2008. 112 pp.
• Postmodernism in Estonian literary culture . Frankfurt am Main [etc.]: Peter Lang 2012. 151 pp.

Article (selection)

• The rise of ethnofuturism, in: Estonia 1/1996, pp. 3–9.
• Sven Kivisildnik's scandalous list, in: Estonia 2/1997, pp. 16-19.
• Etnofuturismist küberkirjanduseni, in: Looming 11/2000, pp. 1682-1697.
• (together with Marin Laak) Intertextuality and Technology: The Models of Kalevipoeg , in: Intertextuality and Intersemiosis. Editors: Marina Grishakova, Markku Lehtimäki. Tartu: Tartu University Press 2004, pp. 287-312.
• Küberkirjandusest meil ja mujal, in: Looming 8/2002, pp. 1235–1240.
• Mustamäe metamorfoosid, in: Keel ja Kirjandus 6/2004, pp. 458-462.
• Traces of the postmodern world in the 21st-century Estonian novel, in: interlitteraria 9 (2004), pp. 130-139.
• The New Elite: from Digital Literature to a Printed Book, in: interlitteraria 14/1 (2009), pp. 247-255
• Twilight Zone. Nullindad kui haemarala. Mõttevahetus: 00-ndad eesti kirjanduses, in: Looming 2/2010, pp. 273–282.
• End of Irony? Estonian Literature after Postmodernism, in: interlitteraria 16/2 (2011), pp. 451-463.
• (together with Marin Laak) The Estonian epic "Kalevipoeg" and its reception in culture and literature, in: National epics between facts and fictions. Contributions to the comparative symposium May 6th to 8th 2010 Tartu. Edited by Heinrich Detering , Torsten Hoffmann, Silke Pasewalck, Eve Pormeister. Tartu: Tartu University Press 2011, pp. 295-318.
• Sõjakujutusest tänapäeva eesti kirjanduses. Leo Kunnase sõjad, in: Keel ja Kirjandus 12/2017, pp. 916–925.

About Piret Viires

• Aime Hansen : Pealtnägija tunnistus, in: Vikerkaar 8/1990, pp. 88–90.
• Ivo Rull: Kirjanduse ja filoloogia vahel, in: Vikerkaar 8/1990, p. 90.
• Hasso Krull : “Naine on inimese sõber”: Vennad naised, in: Keel ja Kirjandus 10/1990, pp. 633–634.
• Cornelius Hasselblatt : Piret Viires: Decline of Cosmopolitanism ?, in: Estonia 1/1996, pp. 10-12.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eesti kirjanike leksikon. Koostanud Oskar Kruus yes Heino Puhvel. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 2000, p. 669.
2. ↑ Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1990. 109 pp.