| Abstract [eng] |
The object of the research of the present dissertation is discourse strategies of the memoirs published in the independent Lithuania and their relation to the processes of the memory (re)construction. It is demonstrated how on the basis of the analysis of the Lithuanians’ memories different discourse strategies show up while (re)constructing individual-autobiographical and collective-historical memory in the memoir narrations, which are dependent on the author’s intentions, the narrator’s subjectivity, particularities of the individual speech expression and the nature of inter-subjective relations created. The memoir genre itself presuppose two possible (at the first glimpse) oppositional trends of memoirism studies: the analysis of the narration content, which is efficient while employing memoir texts as an information resource, and the analysis of the narration form or discourse. The dissertation strives towards the synthesis of the said approaches, i.e. the analysis of the narration form (discourse) is linked to the narration content (memory). Memoirs as specific narrations are analyzed from the theoretical perspective of narratologists Gerard Genett and Mieke Bal. While interpreting particular pieces of work and analysing the relation between the narrator (author) and acting subject, the main research aspect angle from the point of view of methodology is supplemented by the works of Ilon Fraiman, Yuri Lotman, Mikhail Bakhtin, Paul Ricoeur. To interpret the motives of memory, nostalgia theoretical insights and conceptions of Jӧrn Rüsen and Svetlana Boym have been invoked. |
