Senosios raštijos ir šiuolaikinių literatūros teorijų dialogas

Autor: Jakonytė, Loreta
Jazyk: litevština
Rok vydání: 2006
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Zdroj: Senoji Lietuvos literatūra, ISSN 1822-3656, 2006, V. 21, p. 25-48
Popis: While reading works on the ancient literature or descriptions of the cultural practice in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, one can notice certain common features with some fundamental assumptions of the contemporary literary theory that are not always purposefully reflected by researchers themselves. The aim of this paper is to discuss the correlation between characteristics of the ancient literary field and some poststructuralist ideas, to survey their functioning in the works by Lithuanian scholars, and to consider analytical perspectives that might be inspired by theory. The conception of literature, expanded during the last decades of the 20th century (by questioning the definition of fiction and criteria of text attribution, by incorporating genres previously rated as peripheral ones) echoes the cultural reality of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, where dif­ferent types of writing (historical, religious, poetical, etc.) closely coexisted, while a more autonomous literary field (in its modern understanding) was not defined. Theory encourages us to rethink the changing content and flexible boundaries of the notions “writing“ and “literature“, to revise the extent of the cultural heritage and patterns of its historiography, to consider the application of aesthetic criteria as a problem, and to provide the theoretical motivation for a particularly extensive set of subjects under investigation. The concept of literature as a social phenomenon seems to be especially promising for... [to full text]
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