“Sorry, my mind just blew up, gotta go home.” Embracing Finnish weird and Arctic hysteria in the Finnish comic Fok_it.
This article offers an overview of a popular Finnish internet and newspaper comic, Fok_it, aimingto analyse its characteristic features, mainly how concepts such as “Arctic hysteria” and “Finnishweird” are represented in it. The genres are usually used in a literary context (when referringto novels...
| Published in: | Studia Scandinavica |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Uniwersytet Gdański
2024
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| Online Access: | https://czasopisma.bg.ug.edu.pl/index.php/SS/article/view/11564 https://doi.org/10.26881/ss.2024.28.07 |
| Summary: | This article offers an overview of a popular Finnish internet and newspaper comic, Fok_it, aimingto analyse its characteristic features, mainly how concepts such as “Arctic hysteria” and “Finnishweird” are represented in it. The genres are usually used in a literary context (when referringto novels and short stories), yet rarely when describing comics or graphic novels. Therefore,the aim is to explore if and how the above-mentioned concepts are shown in the selected comicand how well they could be applied to comics in general. |
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