Meanings of the Moon in Lithuanian Literature
Meanings of the Moon in Lithuanian Literature

Summary/Abstract: This article by no means attempts at a complete description neither of the semantic nor the figurative aspect of lunar symbolism in Lithuanian literature. It is rather built as a mosaic of a few deliberately chosen characteristic texts, presenting a metonymical overview of Lithuanian literature throughout the 20th century. Concentrating on some typical images, I shall attempt a historical survey of lunar symbolism and its narrative function in particular, which, I hope, will help us to trace the rhetoric of discourse in its dynamics and reveal the outline of historical consciousness it gave expression to.

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