Title Vytauto Kubiliaus XX amžiaus literatūros recepcija: ginčas dėl literatūros, istorijos ir kritikos
Translation of Title Reception of the 20th century literature: polemic over literature, history and the critic.
Another Title Reception of the 20th Century Literature: Polemic over Literature, History and the Critic.
Authors Jakonytė-Kvedarienė, Loreta
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Is Part of Colloquia. 2006, [Nr.] 17, p. 81-96.. ISSN 1822-3737
Keywords [eng] Vytautas Kubilius ; Literary history ; 20th century literature ; Polemic
Abstract [eng] The paper examines a polemic that rose after the publishing of Vytautas Kubilius' book 20th Century Literature in 1995: the main topics, forms, and development; the positions and professional, institutional, and generation dependence of its participants, their arguments and rhetoric. The number and fervour of reviews was evidence of the importance and influence attached to Kubilius' work, but at the same time it highlighted different approaches to literature (an artistic composition or a social phenomenon performing aesthetic, social and political functions), its historic process (homogeneous or multiplex), expectations of literary studies (uncompromisingly objective or subjective, Soviet vs Western, with priorities given to aesthetics or attention to social functions). The polemic displayed a particular sensitivity to various interpretations of Lithuanian literature of the Soviet period and the problematic place of the post-Soviet critic. The paper also considers the way the history of literature written by Kubilius could be read and interpreted after a decade of its publications, especially the possibility of a different estimation of his attention to historical contexts and ideological aspects in the perspective of contemporary literary studies.
Type Journal article
Language Lithuanian
Publication date 2006