To burn or to republish?: the fate of the 18th-19th century Lithuanian bestseller

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Collection:
Mokslo publikacijos / Scientific publications
Document Type:
Knygos dalis / Part of the book
Language:
Anglų kalba / English
Title:
To burn or to republish?: the fate of the 18th-19th century Lithuanian bestseller
Authors:
Vaicekauskas, Mikas
In the Book:
Textual scholarship and the canon / edited by Hans Walter Gabler, Peter Robinson, and Paulius V. Subačius. Leiden: Brill, 2008. P. 9-21. (Variants ; vol. 7)
Subject Category:
LT
Literatūros istorija / Literary history; Literatūros teorija ir kritika / Literary science and criticism; Religinė literatūra / Spiritual literature; Mykolas Olševskis.
Summary / Abstract:

ENIn the second half of the 18th - the first half of the 19th century, the most popular Catholic work of a non-practical nature in Lithuania was Broma atverta ing viečnastį (The Gate Open to Eternity), published in 1753 by the priest Mykolas Olševskis (c. 1712 - c. 1779), a monk of the Order of Canons Regular of Penance (Ordo Canonicorum Regularium Mendicantium S. Mariae de Metro de Poenitentia). In Lithuanian literature this work is interesting from the points of view of socio-cultural functioning and of its own history. The work was written at the time when the language of Lithuanian fiction was not yet created; one can speak only of certain rudiments. Therefore it should be seen as the central text of the period's Lithuanian literature written in Lithuanian. [...]. [Extract, p. 9]

DOI:
10.1163/9789042032361_003
ISBN:
9789042032361
Subject:
Literatūrologija / Literary Studies
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2024-12-19 10:51:09
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