The Late Lithuanian Greimas: Intentions and Reception

The main research material consists of Algirdas Julius Greimas’s texts written during the transition period, when Lithuania was parting with Soviet rule (1989–1991), mainly his “Baltos lankos” column in Literatūra ir menas weekly periodical as well as various texts by other authors on Greimas’s tex...

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Main Author: Loreta Mačianskaitė
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Language:English
Published: Vilnius University Press 2022-12-01
Series:Semiotika (Vilniaus universitetas)
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Online Access:https://www.journals.vu.lt/Semiotika/article/view/31544
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description The main research material consists of Algirdas Julius Greimas’s texts written during the transition period, when Lithuania was parting with Soviet rule (1989–1991), mainly his “Baltos lankos” column in Literatūra ir menas weekly periodical as well as various texts by other authors on Greimas’s texts along with memoirs, letters and obituaries. The study has two aims: 1) to find a conceptual approach for analyzing Lithuanian texts by the late Greimas, 2) to identify points of change in the semiosphere of Lithuanian culture. Greimas’s own semiotic method, namely, a structure of four Senders is used to describe his texts. The theoretical context of Juri Lotman’s cultural semiotics is a more permanent intellectual context for this study, and some of the terms are useful in more than one aspect. The readers’ attitudes towards Greimas’s texts highlight how the core and periphery change in the semiosphere: the period of cultural activity and openness and the internal cultural barriers appearing at the same time, the gradual passivation of culture and cases of sporadic creative relationships.
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spelling doaj.art-cd3a4bf6ec4c4d7a80ee5bd46adb95c62023-02-16T09:45:15ZengVilnius University PressSemiotika (Vilniaus universitetas)1392-02192424-547X2022-12-011710.15388/Semiotika.2022.31The Late Lithuanian Greimas: Intentions and ReceptionLoreta Mačianskaitė0The Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore The main research material consists of Algirdas Julius Greimas’s texts written during the transition period, when Lithuania was parting with Soviet rule (1989–1991), mainly his “Baltos lankos” column in Literatūra ir menas weekly periodical as well as various texts by other authors on Greimas’s texts along with memoirs, letters and obituaries. The study has two aims: 1) to find a conceptual approach for analyzing Lithuanian texts by the late Greimas, 2) to identify points of change in the semiosphere of Lithuanian culture. Greimas’s own semiotic method, namely, a structure of four Senders is used to describe his texts. The theoretical context of Juri Lotman’s cultural semiotics is a more permanent intellectual context for this study, and some of the terms are useful in more than one aspect. The readers’ attitudes towards Greimas’s texts highlight how the core and periphery change in the semiosphere: the period of cultural activity and openness and the internal cultural barriers appearing at the same time, the gradual passivation of culture and cases of sporadic creative relationships. https://www.journals.vu.lt/Semiotika/article/view/31544GreimasLotmanfour types of SenderssemiospherePost-Soviet Lithuania
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The Late Lithuanian Greimas: Intentions and Reception
Semiotika (Vilniaus universitetas)
Greimas
Lotman
four types of Senders
semiosphere
Post-Soviet Lithuania
title The Late Lithuanian Greimas: Intentions and Reception
title_full The Late Lithuanian Greimas: Intentions and Reception
title_fullStr The Late Lithuanian Greimas: Intentions and Reception
title_full_unstemmed The Late Lithuanian Greimas: Intentions and Reception
title_short The Late Lithuanian Greimas: Intentions and Reception
title_sort late lithuanian greimas intentions and reception
topic Greimas
Lotman
four types of Senders
semiosphere
Post-Soviet Lithuania
url https://www.journals.vu.lt/Semiotika/article/view/31544
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