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„Žiemos rúpesčiu" pradžia kaip Metu struktúros kodas

Title in English „The cares of Winter” as the structural code of „The Seasons“ by Donelaitis
Authors

ŠEFERIS Vaidas

Year of publication 2014
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Senoji Lietuvos literatura
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Field Linguistics
Keywords Lithuania; Lithuania Minor; Prussia; Donelaitis; Donalitius; The Seasons; literature; history of literature; old literature; old Lithuanian literature; Baltics; Lithuanian; Baltic languages
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Description The article provides the micro-compositional textual analysis of the beginning of "The cares of Winter" (a part of The Seasons) by Kristijonas Donelaitis. The analysis reveals the unique nature of this text and gives the insight into general features of Donelaitis' poetics, such as conflicting narrative–time structures (circular and linear), topology of the poetic universe (where categories of order and disorder seem to be the basic ones) and the structural discrepancy between the paradigmatic and syntagmatic levels of the text.

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