The project investigates culture-specific emotions in the light of literature of the Finnish North. The aim is to create a model for the study of culture-specific emotions in literature and to develop new methods for studying literature and emotions. The starting point is an understanding of emotions as intersubjective states of the embodied mind, which rely on learned patterns of emotion expression and are shaped by available emotion vocabularies. The project builds on cognitive poetics and experiments with the inter- and multidisciplinary study of emotion, including digital sentiment analysis and empirical reading group studies. The project will enhance the general understanding of collective emotions and transgenerational feelings in the Finnish context. The project's empirical part will be realized in collaboration with the non-profit organization HelsinkiMissio and the municipal library Pedar Jalvi.

2023

2027