Title Portretas lietuvių moterų prozoje: neverbalinės komunikacijos ženklų raiška /
Translation of Title A portrait in Lithuanian women's prose: expression of non-verbal communication signs.
Authors Michailovienė, Lina ; Baliulė, Irena
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Is Part of Jaunųjų mokslininkų darbai.. Šiauliai : Šiaulių universiteto leidykla. 2011, Nr. 1, p.64-69.. ISSN 1648-8776
Keywords [eng] Ieva Simonaitytė ; Jolita Skablauskaitė ; feminism ; portrait ; identity ; non-verbal communication ; outfit ; reflection
Abstract [eng] A literary portrait as well as any other element of artistic creation is not static or closed. It is influenced by changes in the historical time, cultural context integral with interlacing of artistic styles, movements, trends. The process of change in the portrait in women's texts was influenced by the feminist movement which formed the feminist literary criticism. The major place in it is given to woman's experience, feminine writing, and female tradition in literature. Significant attention in creation of a woman's portrait is paid to expression of non-verbal communication signs. The aim of the paper is to analyse what portrait of a woman in Lithuanian women's prose is created; to find out what the functions of outfit as one of non-verbal communication means are in depiction of a woman's portrait on the grounds of feminist literary criticism, comparative, interpretational methods. The object of the analysis is the pieces by women writers of the 20th and the 21st centuries: the novel by Ieva Simonaitytė "Vilius Karalius" (1939), the novels by Jolita Skablauskaitė "Mėnesienos skalikas" (A Moonlight Hound) (1997) and "Kitas kraujas" (Other Blood) (2002). In the female portraits depicted by Simonaitytė and Skablauskaitė attention is focused on a woman's appearance and outfit. In their creation, the outfit is a part of female identity. Simonaitytė emphasises authenticity of clothes as a sign of tradition cherishing and persistent value. In the woman's portrait created by Skablauskaitė, outfit not only reveals the writer's aesthetical worldview, but also expresses a woman's mystique, the powers lying inside her.
Published Šiauliai : Šiaulių universiteto leidykla
Type Journal article
Language Lithuanian
Publication date 2011