| Title |
Pelkės semantika angažuotuose tekstuose / |
| Translation of Title |
The meaning of marsh in the engaged literature. |
| Authors |
Šakavičiūtė, Danguolė |
| Full Text |
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| Is Part of |
Inter-studia humanitatis. 2008, Nr.7: Pelkė lietuvių kultūroje, p. 155-164.. ISSN 1822-1114 |
| Keywords [eng] |
passivity ; crime ; madness ; temper of nation |
| Abstract [eng] |
The theme of marsh discloses the opposites between activity and passivity, life and death, diligence and laziness as essential cultural qualities in European literary tradition (Vergil, Ovidiu). There are several aspects of the problem in the article. Marsh in the Lithuanian historical novel is a stereotypical place to mislead the enemy or a symbolic possibility of original way to escape from entire nation in modern prose (Petras Dirgėla). Marsh is a place for crime and punishment (Vaižgantas, Juozas Baltušis). Draining a marsh is one of the most productive ways to describe human possibilities and temper of nation (Anton Tamsaare, Juozas Baltušis, Hermann Sudermann). The motif of marsh shows the Russian revolutionaries as madmen obsessed by the devil marsh (Maxim Gorky). The article analyses the mentality, self-consciousness and its stereotypes of nation and a human being as well. |
| Type |
Journal article |
| Language |
Lithuanian |
| Publication date |
2008 |
