Phenomenology by Jūratė Levina
Literatūra, 2023
A Phenomenology of Closed Society in “The Drowned Girl”
by Antanas Vienuolis: Anthropological Pro... more A Phenomenology of Closed Society in “The Drowned Girl”
by Antanas Vienuolis: Anthropological Profiles
Problemos, 2020
Three Steps Towards the Phenomenology of Literature with Arūnas Sverdiolas
The paper outlines th... more Three Steps Towards the Phenomenology of Literature with Arūnas Sverdiolas
The paper outlines the methodological orientation of Arūnas Sverdiolas's scholarship and his school towards the praxis of the hermeneutic understanding of concrete cultural phenomena and takes this approach into the field of the phenomenology of literature. The attempt begins with a definition of the literary work in the hermeneutic framework of discourse, in which the work is considered to be an utterance that expresses an originary grasp of world phenomena. This capacity of the work to express is enabled by the operative mechanism of discourse, which binds, by the means of grammar and reference, the linguistic form of the work to the intentional structure of experience. To show this mechanism at work, the paper looks into Alfonsas Nyka-Niliūnas's project of self-creation: Sverdiolas examines the poet's diaries to reconstruct his effort of cultivating his poetic ego along the hermeneutic lines of the existential time, while Nyka-Niliūnas himself expresses this self-conception poetically as a more general phenomenon-the phenomenon of poetic self-consciousness as such-in the poem "Autobiography 1986".
Athena: Philosophical Studies 13, 2018
This paper elaborates on the insight that, in his 1984 address to Joyce scholars "Ulysses Gramoph... more This paper elaborates on the insight that, in his 1984 address to Joyce scholars "Ulysses Gramophone," Jacques Derrida performs a methodologically comprehensive phenomenological analysis to show that James Joyce's Ulysses activates the essential structures of experience to make the reader live through the constitution of sense as corporeally lived and grasped meaning. A deceptively casual collection of facts Derrida rehearses in this talk is, also, a Husserlian variation of connections and continuities between the body, in its many manifestations, and the signifying structures of the socio-cultural order and consciousness. This variation leads Derrida's deconstructive analysis to the discovery of the originary event-the constitution of distinction and, with it, language in the living flesh which, as Derrida finds in Joyce, is the locus and experience of the sensual, corporeally lived intentionality.
Joyce Studies Annual 2017, p. 185–219.
Baltos lankos 40, 2019
An earlier and shorter version of 'The Aesthetics of Phenomena: Joyce's Epiphanies', published in... more An earlier and shorter version of 'The Aesthetics of Phenomena: Joyce's Epiphanies', published in JSA 2017.
Journal of Modern Literature 36.3 (Spring 2013): 194-211.
Through its ostensibly philosophical r... more Journal of Modern Literature 36.3 (Spring 2013): 194-211.
Through its ostensibly philosophical rhetoric and multiple allusions, Four Quartets manifests a continuity between T.S. Eliot’s poetic thought and his early engagement with philosophy. The thematic core of this continuity is Eliot’s concern with the meaningful experience of reality, described as equally dependent on direct perception and on linguistic structure: language shapes perception into a meaningful world-vision, while experience itself is an ongoing process of interpreting (or signifying) that which is perceived. This link empowers poetic language, entangling the reading consciousness in a process to which Edmund Husserl’s descriptions of consciousness refer as “sense-giving.” Four Quartets epitomizes both the phenomenological description and the poetic enactment of meaningful experience. Its opening movement both mimics the structure of experienced reality and keeps the reading eye in the process of making sense in its full complexity, involving all faculties of apprehending reality, from the metaphysical logo-centric systems underlying conceptual understanding of the world to the direct sensuous perception of immediate environment.
T.S. Eliot, Edmund Husserl, phenomenology , semiotics , aesthetics
Greimas by Jūratė Levina
Colloquia 42, 2019
Greimas's Three Aesthetics
| The paper examines Algirdas Julien Greimas’s criticism on literatur... more Greimas's Three Aesthetics
| The paper examines Algirdas Julien Greimas’s criticism on literature and arts and demonstrates that it is guided by three relatively independent theoretical perspectives. Greimas’s vision of the development of the Lithuanian novel implies a sociocultural literary theory, which expands on the premise that in its narrative forms, literature registers society’s sociocultural structure and simultaneously offers to its readers ways of self-perception. Hence the novel, according to Greimas, must capture the tensions of an individual’s self-positioning in his sociocultural milieu. The history of the plastic and fine arts inspired Greimas to look into the other dimension of art, namely the autonomy of artistic expression, defined as an internal cohesion of expressive forms that primarily communicate the manifestations of natural existence understandable across cultures. Yet it is poetry that Greimas considers the most affective art. He describes it as a discourse of individual self-experience and truth-telling in a singular language that supports the inner cohesion of the poet’s vision of the world and hence enables the constitution of sense in the act of reading. Greimas finds these effects realised most powerfully by three Lithuanian poets: Algimantas Mackus, Tomas Venclova, and Henrikas Radauskas.
Algirdas Julius Greimas: asmuo ir idėjos 2, sud. Arūnas Sverdiolas ir Eric Landowski, Vilnius: Ba... more Algirdas Julius Greimas: asmuo ir idėjos 2, sud. Arūnas Sverdiolas ir Eric Landowski, Vilnius: Baltos lankos, 2018, p. 231–271.
Darbai ir dienos, nr. 68, 2017, https://eltalpykla.vdu.lt/handle/1/35566
Kultūros barai, nr. 7/8, 2016, p. 48–59.
Baltos lankos 33 (2010), Vilnius: baltos lankos, p. 170-191; Algirdas Julius Greimas: asmuo ir id... more Baltos lankos 33 (2010), Vilnius: baltos lankos, p. 170-191; Algirdas Julius Greimas: asmuo ir idėjos 1, sud. Arūnas Sverdiolas, Vilnius: Baltos lankos, 2017.
(Post-)Structuralist Criticism by Jūratė Levina
Baltos lankos 23 (2006), Vilnius: baltos lankos, p. 117-149.
Acta litteraria comparativa. Cultural Intertexts. 2 (2006). Vilnius: Vilniaus pedagoginio univers... more Acta litteraria comparativa. Cultural Intertexts. 2 (2006). Vilnius: Vilniaus pedagoginio universiteto leidykla, p. 175-183.
Opus#4-5. Нобелевская лекция. Чтение. Literatūra 51.5 (2009). Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leid... more Opus#4-5. Нобелевская лекция. Чтение. Literatūra 51.5 (2009). Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla, p. 63-74.
Literatūra. Vakarų literatūros tyrinėjimai / Literature. Studies of Western Literature 46.4 (2004... more Literatūra. Vakarų literatūros tyrinėjimai / Literature. Studies of Western Literature 46.4 (2004): 86-94.
Stephen Greenblatt, Vilas ir pasaulio valia. Kaip Šekspyras tapo Šekspyru, Vilnius: Mintis, 2007, p. 401-415.
Šiaurės Atėnai 8.690 (28 Feb. 2004): 8.
Translations by Jūratė Levina
Lithuanian translation of the Chronology of A. J. Greimas's life, in:
Algirdas Julius Greimas: a... more Lithuanian translation of the Chronology of A. J. Greimas's life, in:
Algirdas Julius Greimas: asmuo ir idėjos 1, ed. Arūnas Sverdiolas, Vilnius: Baltos lankos, 2017, p. 741–748.
Lithuanian translation of "Algirdas Julius Greimas: upbringing, education, and wartime years", in... more Lithuanian translation of "Algirdas Julius Greimas: upbringing, education, and wartime years", in:
Algirdas Julius Greimas: asmuo ir idėjos 1, ed. Arūnas Sverdiolas, Vilnius: Baltos Lankos, 2017, p. 635–711.
XX amžiaus literatūros teorijos: Chrestomatija aukštųjų mokyklų studentams, d. 2, sud. Aušra Jurg... more XX amžiaus literatūros teorijos: Chrestomatija aukštųjų mokyklų studentams, d. 2, sud. Aušra Jurgutienė. Vilnius: LLTI, 2011, p. 267–285.
Lithuanian translation of Umberto Eco, "Between Author and Text."
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Phenomenology by Jūratė Levina
by Antanas Vienuolis: Anthropological Profiles
The paper outlines the methodological orientation of Arūnas Sverdiolas's scholarship and his school towards the praxis of the hermeneutic understanding of concrete cultural phenomena and takes this approach into the field of the phenomenology of literature. The attempt begins with a definition of the literary work in the hermeneutic framework of discourse, in which the work is considered to be an utterance that expresses an originary grasp of world phenomena. This capacity of the work to express is enabled by the operative mechanism of discourse, which binds, by the means of grammar and reference, the linguistic form of the work to the intentional structure of experience. To show this mechanism at work, the paper looks into Alfonsas Nyka-Niliūnas's project of self-creation: Sverdiolas examines the poet's diaries to reconstruct his effort of cultivating his poetic ego along the hermeneutic lines of the existential time, while Nyka-Niliūnas himself expresses this self-conception poetically as a more general phenomenon-the phenomenon of poetic self-consciousness as such-in the poem "Autobiography 1986".
Through its ostensibly philosophical rhetoric and multiple allusions, Four Quartets manifests a continuity between T.S. Eliot’s poetic thought and his early engagement with philosophy. The thematic core of this continuity is Eliot’s concern with the meaningful experience of reality, described as equally dependent on direct perception and on linguistic structure: language shapes perception into a meaningful world-vision, while experience itself is an ongoing process of interpreting (or signifying) that which is perceived. This link empowers poetic language, entangling the reading consciousness in a process to which Edmund Husserl’s descriptions of consciousness refer as “sense-giving.” Four Quartets epitomizes both the phenomenological description and the poetic enactment of meaningful experience. Its opening movement both mimics the structure of experienced reality and keeps the reading eye in the process of making sense in its full complexity, involving all faculties of apprehending reality, from the metaphysical logo-centric systems underlying conceptual understanding of the world to the direct sensuous perception of immediate environment.
T.S. Eliot, Edmund Husserl, phenomenology , semiotics , aesthetics
Greimas by Jūratė Levina
| The paper examines Algirdas Julien Greimas’s criticism on literature and arts and demonstrates that it is guided by three relatively independent theoretical perspectives. Greimas’s vision of the development of the Lithuanian novel implies a sociocultural literary theory, which expands on the premise that in its narrative forms, literature registers society’s sociocultural structure and simultaneously offers to its readers ways of self-perception. Hence the novel, according to Greimas, must capture the tensions of an individual’s self-positioning in his sociocultural milieu. The history of the plastic and fine arts inspired Greimas to look into the other dimension of art, namely the autonomy of artistic expression, defined as an internal cohesion of expressive forms that primarily communicate the manifestations of natural existence understandable across cultures. Yet it is poetry that Greimas considers the most affective art. He describes it as a discourse of individual self-experience and truth-telling in a singular language that supports the inner cohesion of the poet’s vision of the world and hence enables the constitution of sense in the act of reading. Greimas finds these effects realised most powerfully by three Lithuanian poets: Algimantas Mackus, Tomas Venclova, and Henrikas Radauskas.
(Post-)Structuralist Criticism by Jūratė Levina
Translations by Jūratė Levina
Algirdas Julius Greimas: asmuo ir idėjos 1, ed. Arūnas Sverdiolas, Vilnius: Baltos lankos, 2017, p. 741–748.
Algirdas Julius Greimas: asmuo ir idėjos 1, ed. Arūnas Sverdiolas, Vilnius: Baltos Lankos, 2017, p. 635–711.
Lithuanian translation of Umberto Eco, "Between Author and Text."
by Antanas Vienuolis: Anthropological Profiles
The paper outlines the methodological orientation of Arūnas Sverdiolas's scholarship and his school towards the praxis of the hermeneutic understanding of concrete cultural phenomena and takes this approach into the field of the phenomenology of literature. The attempt begins with a definition of the literary work in the hermeneutic framework of discourse, in which the work is considered to be an utterance that expresses an originary grasp of world phenomena. This capacity of the work to express is enabled by the operative mechanism of discourse, which binds, by the means of grammar and reference, the linguistic form of the work to the intentional structure of experience. To show this mechanism at work, the paper looks into Alfonsas Nyka-Niliūnas's project of self-creation: Sverdiolas examines the poet's diaries to reconstruct his effort of cultivating his poetic ego along the hermeneutic lines of the existential time, while Nyka-Niliūnas himself expresses this self-conception poetically as a more general phenomenon-the phenomenon of poetic self-consciousness as such-in the poem "Autobiography 1986".
Through its ostensibly philosophical rhetoric and multiple allusions, Four Quartets manifests a continuity between T.S. Eliot’s poetic thought and his early engagement with philosophy. The thematic core of this continuity is Eliot’s concern with the meaningful experience of reality, described as equally dependent on direct perception and on linguistic structure: language shapes perception into a meaningful world-vision, while experience itself is an ongoing process of interpreting (or signifying) that which is perceived. This link empowers poetic language, entangling the reading consciousness in a process to which Edmund Husserl’s descriptions of consciousness refer as “sense-giving.” Four Quartets epitomizes both the phenomenological description and the poetic enactment of meaningful experience. Its opening movement both mimics the structure of experienced reality and keeps the reading eye in the process of making sense in its full complexity, involving all faculties of apprehending reality, from the metaphysical logo-centric systems underlying conceptual understanding of the world to the direct sensuous perception of immediate environment.
T.S. Eliot, Edmund Husserl, phenomenology , semiotics , aesthetics
| The paper examines Algirdas Julien Greimas’s criticism on literature and arts and demonstrates that it is guided by three relatively independent theoretical perspectives. Greimas’s vision of the development of the Lithuanian novel implies a sociocultural literary theory, which expands on the premise that in its narrative forms, literature registers society’s sociocultural structure and simultaneously offers to its readers ways of self-perception. Hence the novel, according to Greimas, must capture the tensions of an individual’s self-positioning in his sociocultural milieu. The history of the plastic and fine arts inspired Greimas to look into the other dimension of art, namely the autonomy of artistic expression, defined as an internal cohesion of expressive forms that primarily communicate the manifestations of natural existence understandable across cultures. Yet it is poetry that Greimas considers the most affective art. He describes it as a discourse of individual self-experience and truth-telling in a singular language that supports the inner cohesion of the poet’s vision of the world and hence enables the constitution of sense in the act of reading. Greimas finds these effects realised most powerfully by three Lithuanian poets: Algimantas Mackus, Tomas Venclova, and Henrikas Radauskas.
Algirdas Julius Greimas: asmuo ir idėjos 1, ed. Arūnas Sverdiolas, Vilnius: Baltos lankos, 2017, p. 741–748.
Algirdas Julius Greimas: asmuo ir idėjos 1, ed. Arūnas Sverdiolas, Vilnius: Baltos Lankos, 2017, p. 635–711.
Lithuanian translation of Umberto Eco, "Between Author and Text."
Lithuanian translation of Raymond Williams, "The Tenses of Imagination."
Lithuanian translation of "Describing Poetic Structures: Two Approaches to Baudelaire's les Chats."
Lithuanian translation of Stephen Greenblatt, "Racial Memory and Literary History."
Vilnius: Mintis, 2007. Includes translator's afterword.