LiteratūraPub Date : 2022-12-30DOI: 10.15388/litera.2022.64.1.4
D. Burba
{"title":"The Origin of the Literary Legend on Jūratė and Kastytis: Scientific Evaluations and the Question of Sources","authors":"D. Burba","doi":"10.15388/litera.2022.64.1.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15388/litera.2022.64.1.4","url":null,"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.","PeriodicalId":432201,"journal":{"name":"Literatūra","volume":"162 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120871497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LiteratūraPub Date : 2022-12-30DOI: 10.15388/litera.2022.64.4.16
Violeta Katinienė
{"title":"Travel as the Answer: Bodo Kirchhoff “Widerfahrnis”","authors":"Violeta Katinienė","doi":"10.15388/litera.2022.64.4.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15388/litera.2022.64.4.16","url":null,"abstract":"Travels and the longing for afar have been and still are the source of inspiration for many authors. This article analyses Bodo Kirchoff’s short story “Widerfahrnis” (“Encounter”), which belongs to the genre of travel literature and extends the literary tradition of German authors to choose the theme of travel to Italy in their work (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Heinrich Heine, Thomas Mann, etc.). The short story raises the existential questions of longing for love, loneliness, confrontation with refugees, and moral and social aspects of relations with them. The article aims to reveal how the structures of experience described by the German phenomenologist Bernhard Waldenfels appear in the work of Bodo Kirchhoff. What happens to us does not happen without our involvement but goes beyond it. The experience begins not with the intentional gaze of the subject, but when someone (a stranger) touches us, encounters us, causes us to react and raises tension. Bernhard Waldenfels attributes the encounter to the realm of pathos, meaning to the realm of feelings. Response or the inevitable response to an encounter comes earlier than an understanding or an answer. Although the title of the short story is in the singular form, it reveals many encounters: a meeting of an older couple, a spontaneous trip to Italy, an encounter with a refugee girl and a refugee family, the birth of love and its loss.","PeriodicalId":432201,"journal":{"name":"Literatūra","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128727408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LiteratūraPub Date : 2022-12-30DOI: 10.15388/litera.2022.64.1.2
Paulius Jevsejevas
{"title":"Enunciative Meaning-Making in Vizijos by Vytautas Mačernis","authors":"Paulius Jevsejevas","doi":"10.15388/litera.2022.64.1.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15388/litera.2022.64.1.2","url":null,"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.","PeriodicalId":432201,"journal":{"name":"Literatūra","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126194744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LiteratūraPub Date : 2022-12-30DOI: 10.15388/litera.2022.1.7
Manfredas Žvirgždas
{"title":"Songs and Letters for the Beloved","authors":"Manfredas Žvirgždas","doi":"10.15388/litera.2022.1.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15388/litera.2022.1.7","url":null,"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.","PeriodicalId":432201,"journal":{"name":"Literatūra","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133911454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LiteratūraPub Date : 2022-12-30DOI: 10.15388/litera.2022.64.1.5
Rimantas Kmita
{"title":"„I understand life as the Cry of some Voice...“: Correspondence between Sigitas Geda and Kornelijus Platelis (1977–1981)","authors":"Rimantas Kmita","doi":"10.15388/litera.2022.64.1.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15388/litera.2022.64.1.5","url":null,"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.","PeriodicalId":432201,"journal":{"name":"Literatūra","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126184758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LiteratūraPub Date : 2022-12-30DOI: 10.15388/litera.2022.64.3.5
Audronė Kučinskienė
{"title":"Loci as Subject of Derision: Between Cicero’s Rhetorical Theory and Practice","authors":"Audronė Kučinskienė","doi":"10.15388/litera.2022.64.3.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15388/litera.2022.64.3.5","url":null,"abstract":"There is no doubt that commonplaces, so called topoi, or loci, played a very important role both in the ancient rhetorical theory and in practice. They conform to the main part of invention in the rhetorical treatises, such as Rhetorica ad Herennium, Cicero’s De Inventione, Topica etc., and they enable an orator to develop his argument in any desirable direction (in utramque partem), and sometimes become the main tool of rhetorical strategy. In his Orator, Cicero claims, that an accomplished speaker, whom he tries to delineate as an ideal, will be perfectly familiar with commonplaces and be able to treat them critically and manipulate according to his purposes. In this paper, on the ground Cicero’s Verrine speeches, I shall analyze how the orator predicts his opponents’ topoi and presents them in a different light, and by criticizing or even by mocking them, he diminishes them in order to strengthen his own arguments. In some cases, e.g. in the Fifth Book of the Actio secunda in Verrem (Verr. 2.5), this becomes the main strategy of speech, and corresponds to the methods delineated in the Orator 49.","PeriodicalId":432201,"journal":{"name":"Literatūra","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128060759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LiteratūraPub Date : 2022-12-30DOI: 10.15388/litera.2022.64.4.12
Sara Bédard-Goulet
{"title":"Vegetal Cinema in Christine Montalbetti’s Novel Western","authors":"Sara Bédard-Goulet","doi":"10.15388/litera.2022.64.4.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15388/litera.2022.64.4.12","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the vegetal agency taking place in the novel Western (2005) (Western: A Novel, translated by Betsy Wing in 2009) by contemporary French writer Christine Montalbetti. Building on the cinematographic performativity of the novel itself and on a materialist ecocritical approach, it studies the mobility of plants in this narrative to identify how the cinematographic transmediality contributes to engage the vegetal in the foreground. This analysis allows to feed the characterisation of cinematographic devices in the contemporary novel and to prolong the reflection on nonhuman agency and its presence in literature today.","PeriodicalId":432201,"journal":{"name":"Literatūra","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127907857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LiteratūraPub Date : 2022-12-27DOI: 10.15388/litera.2022.64.2.2
Павел Лавринец
{"title":"Polish Reception of Alexander Blok in the Russian Press of the Interwar Wilno","authors":"Павел Лавринец","doi":"10.15388/litera.2022.64.2.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15388/litera.2022.64.2.2","url":null,"abstract":"The Russian press of interwar Wilno reflected Polish translations of the poetry of Alexander Blok and the opinions of Polish critics about the work of the Russian poet. These reflections were accompanied by publications with remarks about Blok’s influence on Polish poets. The study of articles and notes on such topics reveals the literary landmarks of the Wilno Russian environment, the mechanisms for the formation and strengthening of the literary reputation of the Russian poet. The research materials are extracted from the Wilno press in Russian in 1923–1934. The study showed that the Polish reception of Blok’s work helped to strengthen the literary reputation of the greatest Russian poet of the era.","PeriodicalId":432201,"journal":{"name":"Literatūra","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133288946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LiteratūraPub Date : 2022-12-27DOI: 10.15388/litera.2022.64.2.3
Dainius Genys
{"title":"F. Dostoevsky’s Underground Man and His Accusations to Modernity","authors":"Dainius Genys","doi":"10.15388/litera.2022.64.2.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15388/litera.2022.64.2.3","url":null,"abstract":"Fyodor Dostoevsky’s literary art has served for centuries as a source of inspiration for scholars of different disciplines, opening up inexhaustible avenues of insight into human existence. The symbolic subtext of the article is an attempt to apply sociological imagination to the review of a literatural masterpiece, reconstructing and conceptualizing the author’s attitudes towards modernization. The academic intrigue stems from the question – how does modernization define a person and how does a person feel in a new society? Dostoevsky’s prominent conflict between the underground man and the social determinants that oppress him is conceptualized from sociological point of view. Through systematic and comparative analysis, the article also highlights Dostoevsky’s attitude to modernization, which is discussed in the broader context of ideas in E. Durkheim’s, Z. Bauman’s, V. Kavolis’s, Ch. Taylor’s, R. Inglehart’s, A. Giddens’s, etc. works.","PeriodicalId":432201,"journal":{"name":"Literatūra","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124609535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LiteratūraPub Date : 2022-12-27DOI: 10.15388/litera.2022.64.2.5
Роман Тименчик
{"title":"The School of Reading Nikolai Gumilev: Seven Students (I. Pribludnyi, D. Kedrin, O. Mochalova, B. Pasternak, O. Mandelstam, M. Tsvetaeva, A. Akhmatova)","authors":"Роман Тименчик","doi":"10.15388/litera.2022.64.2.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15388/litera.2022.64.2.5","url":null,"abstract":"Elaborating literary scholar Boris Tomashevsky’s actionable metaphor “schools” of readers, this historical study picks up seven ‘graduates’ from the depth of poet Nikolai Gumilev’s followers.","PeriodicalId":432201,"journal":{"name":"Literatūra","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122892402","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}