Book Description

Preliminary Material -- The Paradox of the Double Post /Mindaugas Kvietkauskas -- The History of Post-Soviet Literature: Challenges and Models of a New Identity /Aušra Jurgutienė -- Postmodernism as Conjuncture /Dalia Satkauskytė -- The Writer in the Post-Soviet State: Trends in Self-Interpretation /Loreta Jakonytė -- Lithuanian Prose: in Search of a New Identity /Jūratė Sprindytė -- The Present of Past Things: Transformations of Lithuanian Historical Discourse /Algis Kalėda -- Apocalyptic Imagination in the Novels of Ričardas Gavelis /Regimantas Tamošaitis -- Three Articulations of Isaac in Lithuanian Literature /Loreta Mačianskaitė -- Women's Literature and Its Readings /Solveiga Daugirdaitė -- Patterns of Post-War Memory /Saulė Matulevičienė -- Forms of Self-Awareness in Lithuanian Documentary Literature /Elena Baliutytė -- Lithuanian Essay: Between the Soviet Era and Independence /Dalia Čiočytė -- Tomas Venclova: The Poet and Totalitarianism /Donata Mitaitė -- Sources of Classicism in Contemporary Polish and Lithuanian Literature /Audinga Peluritytė-Tikuišienė -- Lyric Poetry since the 1980s: Caught Between Unrest and Meditation /Rita Tūtlytė -- The Art of the Unpoetic Poem: Trends in Post-Soviet Lithuanian Poetry /Brigita Speičytė -- Authors -- Index of Names.