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ISSN (Print) 0258-0802 - ISSN (Online) 1648-1143
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Editorial Board and Table of Contents
- Authors: Rūta Šlapkauskaitė
  Pages: 1 - 7
  Abstract: -
  PubDate: 2022-12-30
  Issue No: Vol. 64, No. 4 (2022)
Enunciative Meaning-Making in Vizijos by Vytautas Mačernis
- Authors: Paulius Jevsejevas
  Pages: 23 - 44
  Abstract: This article is a textual analysis of Vizijos (Visions), a cycle of poems by Vytautas Mačernis (1921–1944). The analysis focuses on enunciative meaning-making. The theory of enunciation (énonciation) originated in lingustics, as an inquiry into the speaking subject which, by an act of enunciation, appropriates the system of language. The introductory part of the article presents enunciative textual analysis as a modification of so-called standard greimasian textual semiotics. As a case in point, a textual analysis, by Algirdas Julien Greimas, of a poem by Marcelijus Martinaitis (“Ašara, dar tau anksti...”) is discussed, highlighting Greimas’ reluctance to discuss enunciative meaning-making. Next follows a brief discussion of an outline for inquiry into the formal apparatus of enunciation as proposed by Émile Benveniste. A model of dimensions of enunciative meaning-making that are relevant to a textual analysis of a lyric text is presented.
  The first part of the textual analysis is dedicated to the “Įžanga” (“Prelude”) of Visions. It is inferred that in terms of enunciative meaning-making the “Prelude” is distinct from the other parts of the work. It is argued that the “Prelude” does not live up to the standard set by those other parts. In order to demonstrate what that standard is, “Pirmoji” (“The First”) vision and excerpts of other parts are discussed. Throughout the demonstration, it is suggested that an inquiry into enunciative meaning-making leads to a different understanding of Visions than the one proposed in comprehensive studies by Virginija Balsevičiūtė-Šlekienė.
  PubDate: 2022-12-30
  DOI: 10.15388/Litera.2022.64.1.2
  Issue No: Vol. 64, No. 4 (2022)
Pursuing the Past: Hunting in Józef Weyssenhoff’s The Sable and
the Girl
- Authors: Dalia Pauliukevičiūtė
  Pages: 45 - 57
  Abstract: The article investigates Józef Weyssenhoff’s novel The Sable and the Girl (Polish: Soból i panna) published in 1911. The name of its author is rarely mentioned when discussing the Polish literature of the late 19th and early 20th century. Most literary critics agree, however, that the signature feature in Weyssenhoff’s works is his poetic descriptions of nature and hunting, especially in aforementioned work. The article analyses the interplay of Lithuanian and Polish cultures in this text as well as its Lithuanian literary geography. The question is raised as to what cultural and literary meanings might have been concentrated in the novel at the turn of the 20th century, and what Polish-Lithuanian cultural connections were revealed due to it. The article introduction offers a brief overview of the changes in depicting hunting in Western literature and cultural tradition, and considers to what extent those insights are still valid when analysing the works of various authors attributed to and impacted by the legacy of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The article further traces the competing plots of love and hunting in Weyssenhoff’s novel, and the writer’s ambition to employ the symbol of the lost world – hunting. A combination of extratextual references, internal textual relations, and detectable intertexts has been employed to interpret the novel; therefore, when delving into the development of the narrative, none of the theories (e.g., intertextuality) is clearly dominant. When discussing The Sable and the Girl in the Lithuanian cultural field, the historical contexts of the early 20th century Russian Empire, the intertexts of Polish literary tradition as well as the concept of hunting and a colonial look at the sociocultural environment where the narrative is developed remain of similar significance.
  PubDate: 2022-12-30
  DOI: 10.15388/Litera.2022.64.1.3
  Issue No: Vol. 64, No. 4 (2022)
The Origin of the Literary Legend on Jūratė and Kastytis: Scientific
Evaluations and the Question of Sources
- Authors: Domininkas Burba
  Pages: 58 - 73
  Abstract: The article explains what may have led to the appearance of one of the most famous and popular legend in Lithuanian culture about the love of the Queen of the Baltic Sea, Jūratė, and the mortal fisherman Kastytis, and looks at the history of its research. According to most scholars, the legend “Queen of the Baltic Sea” was created by Liudvikas Adomas Jucevičius (Ludwik Adam Jucewicz, 1813–1846), a Lithuanian writer, ethnographer, folklorist, historian and translator. The article examines the first reviews of the story and explains how the academic world came to the conclusion that this source is not authentic. It also investigates which sources may have influenced Jucevičius’ story, including mythological plots and the literary works by other authors.
  PubDate: 2022-12-30
  DOI: 10.15388/Litera.2022.64.1.4
  Issue No: Vol. 64, No. 4 (2022)
„I understand life as the Cry of some Voice...“: Correspondence
between Sigitas Geda and Kornelijus Platelis (1977–1981)
- Authors: Rimantas Kmita
  Pages: 74 - 89
  Abstract: The publication presents the correspondence between the poets Sigitas Geda (1943–2008) and Kornelijaus Platelis (b. 1951) in letters in 1977–1981. The publication was prepared with letters from that period found in the personal archives of Uršulė Gedaitė and Kornelijus Platelis. The 13 letters from the late 1970s and early 1980s show the moods of the stagnation years, the hesitations of people in culture, and the reflections on the meaning of creation in the atmosphere of Soviet stagnation. Compared to Geda‘s other known letters, those written to Platelis are characterised by a closer and more open relationship with the addressee. They contain the most important and quite intimate reflections on the creative process, as well as frank evaluations of colleagues‘ works, which differ from those we read in published reviews or journalism.
  PubDate: 2022-12-30
  DOI: 10.15388/Litera.2022.64.1.5
  Issue No: Vol. 64, No. 4 (2022)
In Search of “Cultural Saints”
- Authors: Aistė Kučinskienė
  Pages: 90 - 94
  Abstract: Viktorija Šeina, Savas svetimas dainius. Adamas Mickiewiczius lietuvių literatūros kanone (1883–1940): monografija, Vilnius: Lietuvių literatūros ir tautosakos institutas, 2021, 304 p.
  PubDate: 2022-12-30
  DOI: 10.15388/Litera.2022.1.6
  Issue No: Vol. 64, No. 4 (2022)
Songs and Letters for the Beloved
- Authors: Manfredas Žvirgždas
  Pages: 95 - 100
  Abstract: Balys Sruoga, Raštai, t. 17: Laiškai Vandai Daugirdaitei, kn. 1: 1919–1924, sudarė Algis Samulionis (1936–1994), Neringa Markevičienė, parengė Neringa Markevičienė, Vilnius: Lietuvių literatūros ir tautosakos institutas, 2021, 541 p.
  PubDate: 2022-12-30
  DOI: 10.15388/Litera.2022.1.7
  Issue No: Vol. 64, No. 4 (2022)
Chronicle of the Department of Lithuanian Literature of 2022
- Authors: Mindaugas Kvietkauskas
  Pages: 101 - 107
  Abstract: -
  PubDate: 2022-12-30
  Issue No: Vol. 64, No. 4 (2022)
Editorial Board and Table of Contents
- Authors: Rūta Šlapkauskaitė
  Pages: 1 - 7
  Abstract: -
  PubDate: 2022-12-30
  Issue No: Vol. 64, No. 3 (2022)
Theology and Mathematics in Plato’s Later Ethics
- Authors: Vilius Bartninkas
  Pages: 20 - 30
  Abstract: In Plato’s later ethics, the key challenge to one’s personal progress is unorderly thoughts and motions of soul. This disorder should be corrected by recognising and repeating the orderly thoughts and motions of cosmic gods. This paper examines the theoretical assumptions of Plato’s later ethics. A closer analysis of the Timaeus reveals a peculiar conception of mathematics, according to which numbers and their relations not only reveal facts about the reality, but also express values and ideals. By learning mathematics human beings come to know the everyday ethical life of cosmic gods and become like them.
  PubDate: 2022-12-30
  DOI: 10.15388/Litera.2022.64.3.2
  Issue No: Vol. 64, No. 3 (2022)