Transitions of Lithuanian postmodernism : Lithuanian literature in the post-Soviet period / / edited by Mindaugas Kvietkauskas.

In 1990, Lithuania was the first of fifteen Soviet Republics to proclaim its independence from the USSR and, in doing so, dealt a fatal blow to this superpower. Overnight, this small country, whose very existence had been erased from the world map for 50 years, became Post-Soviet and proclaimed its...

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Year of Publication:2011
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:On the boundary of two worlds : identity, freedom, and moral imagination in the Baltics ; 32
Physical Description:1 online resource (365 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • ""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Introduction: The Paradox of the Double Post""; ""The History of Post-Soviet Literature: Challenges and Models of a New Identity""; ""Postmodernism as Conjuncture""; ""The Writer in the Post-Soviet State: Trends in Self-Interpretation""; ""Lithuanian Prose: In Search of a New Identity""; ""The Present of Past Things: Transformations of Lithuanian Historical Discourse""; ""Apocalyptic Imagination in the Novels of Riardas Gavelis""; ""Three Articulations of Isaac in Lithuanian Literature""
  • ""Women's Literature and Its Readings"" ""Patterns of Post-War Memory""; ""Forms of Self-Awareness in Lithuanian Documentary Literature""; ""Lithuanian Essay: Between the Soviet Era and Independence ""; ""Tomas Venclova: The Poet and Totalitarianism""; ""Sources of Classicism in Contemporary Polish and Lithuanian Literature""; ""Lyric Poetry since the 1980's: Caught Between Unrest and Meditation""; ""The Art of the Unpoetic Poem: Trends in Post-Soviet Lithuanian Poetry""; ""Authors""; ""Index of Names""