Religious and national identity in Antanas Baranauskas’ reflection of the poetical self Cover Image

Religinė ir tautinė tapatybė Antano Baranausko poetinėje autorefleksijoje
Religious and national identity in Antanas Baranauskas’ reflection of the poetical self

Author(s): Dalia Čiočytė
Subject(s): Poetry, Lithuanian Literature, Philosophy of Religion, Phenomenology, Hermeneutics
Published by: Vilniaus Universiteto Leidykla
Keywords: Antanas Baranauskas; Lithuanian poetry; reflection of poetical self; phenomenology; theology of literature;

Summary/Abstract: The article seeks to investigate Antanas Baranauskas’s self-conception from the theoretical perspective of phenomenology and theology of literature. The focus of attention are the poet’s early poems, as they demonstrate intensity of the poetical self-consciousness. Baranauskas interprets both religious and patriotic sense of the poetical writing. He contemplates the transcendental meaning of poetry, creates the link between romantic / Biblical prophet and himself as a poet, between the Christian concept of neighbour and national feelings. Baranauskas’s literary thought is ingenious and attentive to semantic undertones.

  • Issue Year: 48/2006
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 97-104
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Lithuanian