| Title |
The reflection of national historical traumas in Lithuanian poetry |
| Authors |
Čiočytė, Dalia |
| DOI |
10.31648/pl.11263 |
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| Is Part of |
Prace Literaturoznawcze.. Olsztyn : Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie. 2025, vol. 13, p. 201-213.. ISSN 2353-5164. eISSN 2450-0798 |
| Keywords [eng] |
Lithuanian poetry ; theology of literature ; theodicy ; political occupation |
| Abstract [eng] |
This article investigates how Lithuanian poetry interprets traumatic national experience and thus forms national identity in the face of historical injustice. The main intertext of this literary interpretation is Christianity (with the Bible in its center). The main theoretical perspective of this article is theology of literature. Theology of literature investigates the literary interpretation of the origin and sense of human existence and the literary search for human meaning. Lithuanian poetry interprets the two periods of Lithuania's occupation by Russia in the XIXth and in the XXth centuries and tries to explain the theodic problem of national history. The theodic thought of Lithuanian poetry reflects worldview challenges in the perspective of personal and national existential experience and highlights the drama of the search for God, the weight of freedom of choice. Lithuanian poetry, combining universal theodic reflections on free will and the mystery of God with the historical national experience, emphasizes the primacy of the internal (moral and spiritual) sphere of the individual and the nation in the contexts of the occupations and genocide of the nation. |
| Published |
Olsztyn : Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie |
| Type |
Journal article |
| Language |
English |
| Publication date |
2025 |
| CC license |
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