Transitions of Lithuanian Postmodernism

• Mindaugas Kvietkauskas: Introduction: The Paradox of the Double PostAušra Jurgutienė: The History of Post-Soviet Literature: Challenges and Models of a New IdentityDalia Satkauskytė: Postmodernism as ConjunctureLoreta Jakonytė: The Writer in the Post-Soviet State: Trends in Self-InterpretationJūratė Sprindytė: Lithuanian Prose: In Search of a New IdentityAlgis Kalėda: Present of Past Things: Transformations of Lithuanian Historical DiscourseRegimantas Tamošaitis: Apocalyptic Imagination in the Novels of Ričardas GavelisLoreta Mačianskaitė: Three Articulations of Isaac in Lithuanian LiteratureSolveiga Daugirdaitė: Women’s Literature and Its ReadingsSaulė Matulevičienė: Patterns of Post-War MemoryElena Baliutytė: Forms of Self-Awareness in Lithuanian Documentary LiteratureDalia Čiočytė: Lithuanian Essay: Between the Soviet Era and IndependenceDonata Mitaitė: Tomas Venclova: The Poet and TotalitarianismAudinga Peluritytė-Tikuišienė: Sources of Classicism in Contemporary Polish and Lithuanian LiteratureRita Tūtlytė: Lyric Poetry since the 1980s: Caught Between Unrest and MeditationBrigita Speičytė: The Art of the Unpoetic Poem: Trends in Post-Soviet Lithuanian PoetryAuthorsIndex of Names

"The collection as a whole, and several essays in particular …, attempt to go beyond the confines of national literary criticism, situating contemporary Lithuanian literature in a global context. … this volume will prove useful to literary and cultural historians and to a more general audience interested in contemporary Lithuanian literature." – in: Slavic and East European Journal 57/4 (Winter 2013)"Transitions of Lithuanian Postmodernism features essays touching upon the questions of identity, history, and culture in the post-Soviet Baltic countries. Its topic, contemporary Lithuanian literature, is a critical one that is most effectively approached from a variety of angles—hence the appropriateness of a collection of articles by a group of experts. … virtually every contribution to the volume is interesting and informative and will, one hopes, inspire further work." – in: Slavic Review 72/2 (Summer 2013)"the first English book-length treatment of the subject … Transitions provides an adequate and exhaustive account of the latest developments in the cotemporary Lithuanian-language literary scene." – in: Lituanus, The Lithuanian Quarterly 59/2 (2013)