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Literatūra
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Authors: Rūta Šlapkauskaitė
Pages: 1 - 7
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Authors: Rūta Šlapkauskaitė
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Authors: Dalia Čiočytė
Pages: 8 - 22
Abstract: Vanda Zaborskaitė (1922–2010) was a famous literary critic and the author of a fundamental monograph about the prominent Lithuanian poet Jonas Mačiulis-Maironis (Maironis, 1968, 1987). Vanda Zaborskaitė wrote during the period of Soviet occupation, when Marxist criticism was obligatory. She used the sociological method as interpreted by Marxism, but she never accepted its philosophical determinism. She considered it important to put a literary work in the contextual frame of the literary history; however, she did not accept the view according to which literature is ruled by the laws of the social and cultural history. The philosophical position of Vanda Zaborskaitė was modernisation of the classical literary criticism, which is a tradition of the literary study sourced from the times of Aristotle’s Poetics. A characteristic of this tradition is reliance on the deep ordered structures observed in literary works. Vanda Zaborskaitė investigated such deep literary structures (images and their constellations) as codes of individual artistic self-awareness. In the opinion of the researcher, the pinnacles of literary art are those works which, by employing aesthetic persuasion, interpret the classical ideas of the Western world: the ideas of the absolute value of the personality, freedom, and the primate of the spirit. Professor Vanda Zaborskaitė researched the Lithuanian classic authors during the years of Soviet occupation, and did this in such a way that her works promoted the classical literature along with the classical values.
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Zaborskaitėʼs biography
Authors: Žydronė Kolevinskienė
Pages: 23 - 36
Abstract: The article presents the years of work of the literary scholar, Professor Vanda Zaborskaitė at Vilnius University and at Vilnius Pedagogical Institute from 1966 to 1994. The famous activity of Vilnius University Department of Lithuanian Literature, along with the witch-hunt which led to Zaborskaitėʼs arrival at the Pedagogical Institute, is well-documented and extensively reflected upon. The main sources of the article are the minutes of the Department of Lithuanian and Foreign Literature of Vilnius Pedagogical Institute (later renamed as Lithuanian University of Education), as well as the published ego-documents of Vanda Zaborskaitė – her correspondence published in the book This is me, I write... (2019) and her diaries presented in the book Dienoraščiai 1941–2010 (2019). The archives of the Department of Lithuanian and Foreign Literature are stored in Vilnius, at the current Academy of Education of Vytautas Magnus University. Vanda Zaborskaitėʼs personal file in this archive contains 100 pages. The years of work at Vilnius Pedagogical Institute, her knowledge of the school life, as well as her desire to reform the schools of the already independent Lithuania contributed significantly to Zaborskaitėʼs commitment to the work with teachers and schools, along with the involvement in Lithuanian education. The nearly three decades of the work of Professor Vanda Zaborskaitė at Vilnius Pedagogical Institute reflect both her personal change and Lithuaniaʼs move towards freedom. Although, of course, in spirit, she remained first and foremost a representative of Vilnius University and the department which was being dismantled at the time. However, her firm position, exceptional competence, high criteria for literary education, uncompromising opinion, encouragement of critical thinking and confidence allowed the people of the Department of Lithuanian and Foreign Literature of the Pedagogical Institute to unite for the future of the school, for the survival of the studies of the Lithuanian language because, for her, the studies of the Lithuanian language represent the consciousness of ‘Lithuanianness’. The issue raised in the article is reflected in the quote by Vanda Zaborskaitė in the title: “to go beyond the boundaries of what is painful.” The author of the article is interested in what kind of boundaries Vanda Zaborskaitė crossed, and how she did that. Are all boundaries crossed' And how does the (non-)crossing of boundaries create new boundary situations'
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of a Multinational City
Authors: Mindaugas Kvietkauskas
Pages: 37 - 54
Abstract: The article examines the relationship between the generation of žemininkai (a literary movement; its name can be roughly translated as ‘representatives of land’) and the multi-ethnic Vilnius urban space since 1940, when the young representatives of this generation moved to the regained capital of Lithuania. Previous studies of their work stated that the experience of Vilnius had a significant impact on the cultural consciousness of this generation, but they never analysed the process of development of their ‘Vilnius identity’ and urban discourse, the meanings of the city that it emphasised, and the manifestations of the relationship with the multi-ethnic urban environment and the cultural ‘other’. The article presents socio-cultural analysis of the poetic and ego-documentary texts of four žemininkai authors who reflected on their Vilnius experience – Pranė Aukštikalnytė-Jokimaitienė, Kazys Bradūnas, Vytautas Mačernis, and Alfonsas Nyka-Niliūnas, as well as the autobiographical testimonies of the literary scholar Vanda Zaborskaitė. Their initial attitudes seem to be similar – ethnocentric and monological, whereas the urban imagination is dominated by the axis of the Lithuanian-European cultural meanings, and the spatial images are distilled from the signs of the local cultural ‘Other’. However, as early as during the war years, and especially in the post-war period, a shift in the individual attitudes of some of the žemininkai is evident. The initial nationalistic schemes are loosened or questioned, and signs of the ‘Other’ are integrated, which is first of all manifested in their poetry and poetic prose about Vilnius.
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Vienuolis: Anthropological Profiles
Authors: Jūratė Levina
Pages: 55 - 83
Abstract: The inquiry formulates the fundamentals of the hermeneutics of narrative against the background of the history of reception of the work under examination, “The Drowned Girl” by Antanas Vienuolis, and draws on the relevant phenomenological descriptions and resources of structural analysis to foreground the operative mechanisms of closed society. Such mechanisms are foregrounded on three planes: (1) social, of the rules of relationships between people, which in the story constitute a hierarchal system of power relations modelled on the structure of the traditional family of the agricultural holding, (2) significative, comprising sense-making discourses (traditional customs and Christianity) whereby the culture, in this story, configures the world without transcending corporeally perceivable horizons of the actually lived present, and (3) anthropological, where sociocultural praxis and self-perception are grounded in the essentially unhuman nature which the culture tries to assimilate and erase without recognising its essential otherness. This threefold configuration emerges at the crossroad of the (author’s and reader’s) Modern and (the represented) archaic cultural self-conceptions, which produces the conflict of interpretations and facilitates both the cathartic effect and the ongoing process of sense-making. All these configurations are derived from the story’s poetics, simultaneously exposing the discursive operative mechanisms of closed society.
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Erlickas
Authors: Neringa Klišienė
Pages: 84 - 98
Abstract: Short dramatic forms have become theatrical objects that are not easily identifiable. They act as a symbol of questioning the foundations of the conventional drama and a reflection on the dramatic genre in general. The article focuses on its ambiguous treatment and its actualisation in the context of contemporary Lithuanian dramaturgy. Micro-drama, miniature, one-shot drama, or ‘dramatized’ proverbs and sayings – these are the playwrights’ own denominations indicating a kind of tendency which emerged at the end of the 20th century, or, at least, the search for an original term or word. At the same time, however, this effort also signals the inscription of short-format dramatic texts into a certain mediatic area of literature and theatre, which is primarily seen as a sign of a certain bargain with the reader. The article does not look at short-form texts so much through the prism of theatrical evolution, but rather focuses on the mechanism of short-form writing. The question is whether (and how) such ‘mutations’ of dramatic writing m...
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Authors: Regimantas Tamošaitis
Pages: 99 - 105
Abstract: Lietuvių literatūros kanono dirbtuvės (XIX a. pabaiga–XX a. pirma pusė): kolektyvinė monografija. Sud. Viktorija Šeina. Vilnius: Lietuvių literatūros ir tautosakos institutas, 2022, 635 p.
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verčiame, ko stokojame'“
Authors: Modestas Bakas, Radvilė Bartkutė, Agnietė Čepėnaitė , Eimantas Garšauskas, Iveta Ivanauskaitė, Justina Katauskaitė, Martynas Pumputis
Pages: 106 - 119
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Authors: Jurgita Žana Raškevičiūtė
Pages: 120 - 127
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