Semiotics of guilt in two Lithuanian literary texts

The idea of the article was suggested by Lotman’s theory about two basic mechanisms of social behaviour — fear and shame. The presented paper aims at highlighting two other mechanisms of such kind — guilt and repentance. The novella Isaac (1960–61) by Antanas Škėma, the Lithuanian writer in exile, i...

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Main Author: Loreta Mačianskaitė
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Tartu Press 2003-12-01
Series:Sign Systems Studies
Online Access:https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/sss/article/view/17606