Title The development of dialogue in lithuanian women’s drama between the end of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century /
Translation of Title Dialogo raida lietuvių moterų dramaturgijoje XIX A. pabaigoje - XX A. pirmoje pusėje.
Authors Avižinienė, Birutė
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Keywords [eng] dialogue ; drama ; women's literature
Abstract [eng] The dissertation analyzes dramas written by Lithuanian women writers at the time period between the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. Women’s dramaturgy is researched according to the aspect of development of drama dialogue. The research problem is related to the question of how does the dialogue of women’s drama form and develop during the time period of the research and what is characteristic to its development. Features of the development are directly connected to problems of the dialogue of a drama: a dialogue is both the main form of the language of dramaturgy, and also it is a discourse which articulates the theatrical situation. The aim of the dissertation is to distinguish the types of a dialogue in women’s dramaturgy of the investigated time period, to identify their most important characteristics, to demonstrate the interrelations of types of a dialogue, and to render through them the way how a dialogue of women’s drama is formed and developed during the time period of the investigation, to identify distinctive features of a dialogue. The specificity of drama dialogue is disclosed in the research combining a triple analytical view: first, a dialogue is analyzed as a specific form of language having certain stylistic expression and distinguished by certain rhetoric strategies. According to this aspect, a dialogue unfolds in the internal communicational space of a dramatic work and expresses its elements. The second aspect of the analysis pays attention to the manner that a dialogue creates the relation between fictional process on the stage and the audience, complements verbal information with a different material realized on the stage. The historical context becomes important analyzing a dialogue of a drama according to the third aspect and actualizes the concept of horizon of expectations.
Dissertation Institution Vilniaus universitetas.
Type Summaries of doctoral thesis
Language English
Publication date 2017