| Abstract [eng] |
The object of the Master’s degree work is essays of Sigitas Parulskis, Gintaras Beresnevičius, Giedra Radvilavičiūtė, Regimantas Tamošaitis, which are analysed as personal essays. The following collections of the mentioned authors are analysed: „Nuogi drabužiai“ (2002), „Miegas ir kitos moterys“ (2005), „Vilkų saulutė“ (2003), „Suplanuotos akimirkos“ (2004), „Vitaminų pardavėjas“ (2007). The aim of the Work is to analyse essays of Parulskis, Beresnevičius, Radvilavičiūtė, Tamošaitis as personal essays, revealing peculiarities of these essays and poetry, individuality of essayists. Tasks: 1) to present theoretical concepts of the personal essay, by defining their limits and problems; 2) to identify peculiarities of thinking and expression of the personal essay author; 3) to analyse poetic aids and aesthetical positions, characteristic to essays of Lithuanian authors; 4) to compare peculiarities of essays of different authors, their similarities and differences; 5) to define types of personal essay readers, their links with institution of the author and the text; 7) to reveal the “horizon of expectation” of the addressee and its effect on perception and interpretation of the read texts. Methodology of the Research – theory of comparativistics, conceptions of “personal essay” by Bill Roorbach, “open creation” and “the model reader” by Umberto Eco, “horizon of expectations” by Hans Robert Jauss. As far as the personal essay has not been canonised, insights about art of personal essays by Phillip Lopate and Michael Epstein are invoked. The Research revealed that there are many joint links between personal essay and “open” creation, which are firstly effected by possibility for the writer to create the text of essays in a more free, creative and original manner. Meanwhile for the reader – the model and empirical – wider possibilities of text perception and interpretation are opened. They are affected by artistic decisions of authors, and by the individual “horizon of expectations”. Essays of Parulskis, Beresnevičius, Radvilavičiūtė, Tamošaitis can be perceived as the personal essays and this enables to envisage specific peculiarities of thinking, writing and reflecting the creativity of essayists. On the other hand, all essays revealed that it is rational to consider them in contexts of post-modernistic poetics and aesthetics. |
