TY - JOUR AU - Parente-Capkova, Viola PY - 2021/03/20 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Gendering seekers and upstarts in early twentieth-century Finnish literature JF - Approaching Religion JA - AR VL - 11 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.30664/ar.98282 UR - https://journal.fi/ar/article/view/98282 SP - 28-44 AB - <p class="p1">The search for truth and spirituality, intertwined with the search for one’s self, has been a perennial theme in arts and literature. In some works of Finnish literature at the turn of the twentieth century, the figure of a person seeking for spiritual fulfilment tended to intertwine with that of the upstart (<em>nousukas</em> in Finnish). At first sight, it might seem odd that these two figures should overlap in literary works, but as I show, especially in early twentieth-century Finnish literature, such cases are not rare, given the wide range of meanings that the word nousukas would denote.</p> ER -