kirjandusteoses

Kirjandusteos is a Finnish noun referring to a single work of literature. It is formed from the words kirjandus (literature) and teos (work), and denotes a complete written creation that bears artistic or intellectual content. Common inflected forms include kirjandusteoksen (genitive) and kirjandusteoksessa (inessive). The form kirjandusteoses is not a standard, stand-alone inflection in modern Finnish; when discussing a specific work, writers use the base kirjandusteos and its case endings.

A kirjandusteos can belong to various genres, including prose, poetry, drama, or essays. It may be a novel, a collection of short stories, a volume of poetry, a play, or an essay collection. The term focuses on the artifact as a unit of analysis or reference, rather than on the broader category of literature or the discipline of literary studies.

In scholarly and bibliographic contexts, the term is used to discuss the content, form, and reception of a work. Analysts examine narrative technique, themes, characterisation, and stylistic features within a given kirjandusteos, and compare it with other works in a canon or corpus. Reception, publication history, translations, and edition differentiation are also relevant.

Examples of well-known Finnish kirjandusteokset include Aleksis Kivi's Seitsemän veljestä and Elias Lönnrot's Kalevala; internationally acknowledged literary works such as Pride and Prejudice or The Odyssey are also treated as kirjandusteokset in their respective languages.