Enesemüümise ja -õigustuse vahel. Eesti kirjanduskriitika ja -teadus 2005. aastal
Between Prostitution and Self-Justification: Estonian Literary Reviews and Literary Studies of 2005

Summary/Abstract: The article provides a survey of Estonian literary reviews and literary studies published in 2005. In comparison with the previous years, the proportion of meta-criticism has increased, while the tasks of both criticism and research have been approached analytically (A. Pilv, M. Väljataga) as well as polemically. Institutional changes were too recent to affect everyday practice. Of the daily papers, Eesti Päevaleht was the most generous in offering space to book reviews, while Postimees demonstrated the most professional approach. The journals Looming, Keel ja Kirjandus, Vikerkaar and Akadeemia retained their traditional position as major mediators of the literary critical and research-oriented thought, opening, as usual, their pages for most of the first publications of Estonian literary studies. A few collections of articles were also published. Of more voluminous works one should mention Anne Lange’s monograph on the Estonian literary critic and translator Ants Oras and the book Postmodernismi teooria ja postmodernistlik kultuur (”Postmodernist theory and culture”) by Janek Kraavi. Although no doctoral studies on Estonian literature were finished in 2005, it is still the subject of the dissertation Vihjamise poeetika (”The Poetics of Allusion”) by Anneli Mihkelev that was defended under semiotics.

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