Aistė Kučinskienė, Kultūrišku keliu: Juozo Tumo-Vaižganto laiškai, Vilnius: Lietuvių literatūros ir tautosakos institutas, 2019. ‒ 256 p., ISBN 978-609-425-284-6

The Literary Field under Communist Rule, edited by Aušra Jurgutienė & Dalia Satkauskytė, Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2018. Series: “Lithuanian Studies without Borders”. ISBN: 9781618119773 (hardcover); ISBN 9781618119780 (electronic); 258 pp.

Algirdas Julius Greimas, Apie viską ir nieką: žmogus, visuomenė, kultūra, parengė Jūratė Levina, Vilnius : Vilniaus universiteto leidykla, 2019, 237, [1] p., ISBN 978-609-07-0340-3.

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Nida Gaidauskienė, Sofija Kymantaitė-Čiurlionienė: modernėjančios savimonės kontūrai: monografija, Vilnius: Lietuvos kultūros tyrimų institutas, 2018, ISBN 978-609-8231-01-4.

Imagology Profiles: The Dynamics of National Imagery in Literature, edited by Laura Laurušaitė, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018, 265 pages, ISBN-13: 978-1-5275-1102-6; ISBN-10: 1-5275-1102-2.

Edgars Lāms, Friča Bārdas dzīves un dzejas gadalaiki: Monogrāfija [Liepājas universitāte: Humanitāro un mākslas zinātņu fakultāte], Liepāja: LiePA, 2017, 292 p., ISBN 978-9934-569-26-5.Viesturs Vecgrāvis, Mani sveicina zvaigznes…: Romantiskā pasaules izjūta latviešu dzejā: Impresijas un ieskati, Rīga: Latvijas Universitātes Akadēmiskais apgāds, 2018, 280 p., ISBN 978-9934-18-380-5.

Borrowing from poetry which belongs to another literary epoch or is written in another language is a constituent part of poetic action. According to Thomas Stearns Eliot, “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.” In semiotic terms, this can be described as transformation of another poetic language. Algirdas Julius Greimas said: “Meaning is nothing else but transposing one level of language into another level, or one language into another, a different one.” This paper aims to describe the traces of interaction of poets who wrote in different languages and to discuss the direction of transformation of poetic language.The most authoritative teacher of the young Tomas Venclova was Boris Pasternak. The early poems of the Lithuanian poet remind us of Pasternak’s poems from his collection Above the Barriers in their metric variations, rhyming schemes, and alliterative clusters. Two poems by Venclova dedicated to the memory of Pasternak were written in 1960 and 1961. What Venclova ‘steals’ from Osip Mandelstam is mostly semantic figures. In a number of poems, Venclova gets very close to the polyphonic language of this Russian poet. Joseph Brodsky is another constant dialogic partner of Venclova. Sometimes Venclova quotes or paraphrases Lithuanian poetic texts. His poems integrate Lithuanian history of the 20th century, and touch upon the themes of the Holocaust, partisan movement, and the victims of the occupational regime.The values paradigm in Venclova’s poetry is supported by Dante and Shakespeare, as well as a number of 19th and 20th century poets, such as Keats, Baudelaire, Rilke, Apolinnaire or Dylan Thomas. Cyprian Norwid’s “A Funeral Rhapsody in Memory of General Bem” and Czesław Miłosz’s “Ars Poetica?” are also used as poetic subtext. In his later period, Venclova wrote five poems on Biblical stories.Venclova’s connections with the Lithuanian poetic tradition can be defined as hyponymous relationship of belonging: the language and the historical memory. The poetic meanings created by Venclova are actualisations of subtexts of poetry written in many languages. Therefore we can consider Venclova to be a European poet who writes in the Lithuanian language.

This paper focuses on the digital analysis of Latvian novels (46 in total) published between 1900 and 1914. By elaborating this corpus of texts and detecting and scrutinizing different facets of space representation, we ask questions in regard to the possibilities, as well as potential predicaments of the use of the methodology of digital humanities when applied to the interpretation of literary texts. We are especially interested in the representations of enlargement of geographical space in the novels and the ways in which the literary representations are linked to historical and social events. In the final part, , we discuss how the outcomes of digital analysis play a part in the process of canon-building in Latvian literature, and what similarities and differences prevail in texts included in the literary canon and in those remaining on the periphery. The conclusion further relates these issues to the nationbuilding process of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Latvia.

Viktorija Daujotytė, Granas: Įtrūkstanti tikrovė: Mąstymo apie Romualdą Granauską punktyrai; įrašai, Vilnius: Odilė, 2017, 320 p., ISBN 978-609-95922-2-0