Lithuanian Mannerheim line: cultural landscapes. Political issues in civilisational context

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Language:
Anglų kalba / English
Title:
Lithuanian Mannerheim line: cultural landscapes. Political issues in civilisational context
Authors:
Landsbergytė-Becher, Jūratė
Publication Data:
Vilnius : Lietuvos kultūros tyrimų institutas, 2025.
Pages:
455 p
Contents:
Acknowledgements — Introduction — Chapter I. DRAMA OF STATEHOOD AND ITS LANDSCAPES. The Concept of Lithuanian Homeland. Transcendental Landscapes — The Call from the Depths as a Leitmotif in Baltic Poetry and Music during the Era of Soviet Occupation — The Secondary in the Concept of Resistance and Processes of Modernism: Rethinking Baltic Minimalism — Catastrophe of Lithuania in the Poetry of Émigrés: Apocalyptic Meaning of the Soviet Occupation and the Affected Archetypes (the Discourse between the Works of B. Brazdžionis and A. Mackus) — Statehood in Contemporary Lithuanian Cultural Discourse — Literature in the Political Context of the 1990s: Return of the Non-occupied — Fairy Tale of Kings: Lithuania Between M. K. Čiurlionis’ Visions and the 20th-Century Political Contexts — National Versus Historical Identity in the Lithuanian context — Destinies of the State and Its Writers in History. Dimensions of Their Tragedy and Success in Lithuanian Literature — Anti-Empire: A Visual Reconstruction of the World by Lithuanian Thinkers in the Spirit of Minor Nations Liberation — Chapter II. HISTORICISM VERSUS METAMODERNISM. The Road of Romanticism in Lithuanian Culture and Its Turn into the Baltic Identity — Non-fiction from a Historical Perspective: Situation of Lithuanian Statemen Amid Tragic Events of 1940–1941 — The Epoch that Did Not Happen. The Poem of the Perished and Its Relationship to History — Linguistic Aspect of Statehood in the Latest Lithuanian Literature: The Comeback of History — Body and Soul: Controversies of Aesthetics of Postmodernism in Post-Soviet Space — Folkloristic Archetype Versus Sovietism in Marcelijus Martinaitis’ The Ballads of Kukutis —Modernism as Europeanism in Lithuanian Music. Algirdas Martinaitis Case — Reconceptualisation of Lithuanian National Identity Before the Romanticism Period in K. Sabaliauskaitė’s Silva rerum — Historical Inspiration of Rzeczpospolita (Commonwealth of Two Nations) for Contemporary Political Lithuanian Identity based on Kristina Sabaliauskaitė’s Silva rerum — The Visionaries of Vilnius and the Lithuanian Version of Metamodernism — Russia Versus Europe: The Collision of Civilisations in the Works of Contemporary Lithuanian Writer Kristina Sabaliauskaitė — Global Aspects of Lithuanian American Identity — Chapter III. MUSIC MEETS WITH THE MANNERHEIM LINE. Metaphor in the Context of Baltic Music: The Idea of Eternal Return — Nietzsche’s Shadow over Baltic Minimalism, Based on Mindaugas Urbaitis’ Der Fall Wagner. — Images of the Apocalypse and War in the 21st-century Lithuanian Music — The Music of Lithuanian Composer Ričardas Kabelis: Signs and Four Codes — Diverse Intermedial Aspects in the Interpretation of R. M. Rilke’s Poetry by Lithuanian Composer Onutė Narbutaitė — Phenomenology of the Front Line in Lithuanian Contemporary Cultural Landscape — A Premonition of War in Lithuanian Music and Literature (2021–2022) — Between Light and Darkness: Meaningful Projections of Lithuanian Music in the Field of the Present — The Soundscape of Silenced After-war Front Lines in Music Images by Vytautas Germanavičius Red Trees (2018), Dedicated to Lithuanian Freedom Fighter General Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas — Afterword — Index.
Subject Category:
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Menai / Arts; Muzika / Music; Literatūros teorija ir kritika / Literary science and criticism.
Summary / Abstract:

ENThe penetration of the Mannerheim Line into the Baltic horizon is a unique phenomenon, reflecting the return of European thought to the unfinished nature of history and its sacral transcendentalism. An alternative space is unfolding within culture, shaping the codes of creativity and their meanings, and awakening an extraordinary mission to recognise the significance of facts. It is a phenomenon of the non-ending of time, a herald of the Mannerheim Line and the profound intellect of the nation, a refusal to accept the marginalisation of small nations, and a move towards the ultimate defensive state of existence. The articles presented to the readers aim to explore various sources of inspiration and forms of expression of this Mannerheim Line phenomenon, and to once again raise the question of the most painful historical experiences, including betrayals of values, confusions, mistakes, and wrong choices, and to consider their consequences. They seek to draw attention to the transformation of the idea of statehood and the changes in the cultural landscape they caused, the persistence over time of the tensions they provoked, the shadows of specific intersections of culture wars and silent turns of the world, the drama of real struggles and suffering, which was artificially distorted, obstructed, but crucial for the development of the nation. This book reveals a country determining its fate amid the ongoing scene of iron walls and red lines. Reflecting on Ukraine’s struggle and hope to join the free world when discussing red lines against the background of the glow of the war, the long-awaited Mannerheim Line re-emerges, highlighting its significance. Cultural landscapes here mark the course of the Baltic nations’ destiny, crucial for the spirit of the civilisation; they prompt rethinking the fight for independence and the processes that lead from illusions to sustainable, defensible freedom.

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2026-03-27 13:13:04
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