Tautosakos darbai
type: channel
description: Įkurtas 1935 m. Žurnalą leidžia Lietuvių literatūros ir tautosakos institutas. Skirtas folkloro, mitologijos, kultūrinės antropologijos, etnologijos ir kitų susijusių sričių tyrimams, reikšmingiems kultūros istorijai ir šiuolaikiniams jos procesams pažinti.
publisher: The Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore / Lietuvių literatūros ir tautosakos institutas
language: en
publication name: Tautosakos darbai
issn: 1392-2831
items: The Long-Awaited 26th Volume of the „Book of Lithuanian Folk Songs“ – Second Volume of the Calendar Songs
items: A Comprehensive Guide to the World of Latvian Mythology
items: On the Occasion of Publication of Janina Degutytė’s Letters
items: Touched by Venus: The Concept and Treatment of Syphilis in the First Half of the 20th Century Lithuania
items: Modern Situational Sayings by Children and Young People
items: Folklore in the Lithuanian Elementary Books from the 19th to the Beginning of the 20th Century
items: Conforming but not Forgetting: Stories by Partisan Children about (Non)adaptation to the Soviet Occupation
items: “Maybe They Really Were Collaborators and Got Attacked?” (Non)recollections of Collaboration and the Memory Work of Different Generations in the Families
items: Foreword
items: Editorial Board and Table of Contents
items: Information
items: What Do the Egodocuments of Prelate Kazimieras Steponas Šaulys Tell Us
items: On an Unforgettable Partisan and a Slightly Forgotten Price of Freedom
items: A Book not about Letters
items: Letter as a Way of Survival: The Case of Etty Hillesum
items: Letters Are Like God’s Cakes. The Book of the Epistolary Legacy by Bishop Teofilius Matulionis
items: Love and Method. Lessons and Example of Arendtian Tradition
items: All Available Sources Must Be Relied Upon. Exploring the Context of Balys Sruoga’ Letters from Stutthof
items: Does not Choose Writings or Letters – They Just Happen. On Publication of Balys Sruoga’ Letters from Stutthof
items: Revelations of Partisan War in the Letters of Mingėla Family
items: Researching Documentary Heritage. Letters of Lithuanian Partisans
items: Linguistic Attitudes and Activities of Petras Klimas. Diplomat’s Written Language in Private Correspondence
items: “I Hate Writing Letters!”: Social Portrait of Vincas Mykolaitis-Putinas in His Correspondence
items: Correspondence Time as an Alternative Plane: Togetherness, Encounter, Virtuality
items: Epistolary Becomings: Archival Traces and Diffractive Readings
items: Greta Paskočiumaitė defended her thesis “Lithuanian Partisan War Narrative: a Study of Three Generations”
items: Profesoriaus Kazio Grigo 100-osioms gimimo metinėms skirta tarptautinė konferencija
items: https://www.journals.vu.lt/td/en/article/view/35934

The Long-Awaited 26th Volume of the „Book of Lithuanian Folk Songs“ – Second Volume of the Calendar Songs
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description: <em style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" data-mce-fragment="1">Lietuvių liaudies dainynas<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;" data-mce-fragment="1"> 26: <em style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" data-mce-fragment="1">Kalendorinių apeigų dainos<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;" data-mce-fragme…
subject: Reviews, Annotations
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creator: Rimantas Astrauskas
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-07-16
publication date: 2025-07-16
starting page: 137
ending page: 142
doi: 10.51554/TD.25.69.08

A Comprehensive Guide to the World of Latvian Mythology
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description: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;" data-mce-fragment="1">Sandis Laime, <em style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" data-mce-fragment="1">Latviešu teiku tipu un motīvu rādītājs: Raganas = Latvian Legend Type and Motif Index: Witches<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;" data-mce-fragment="1">, Rīga: LU Literatūras, folkloras un mākslas institūts, 2024, 688 p., ISBN 978-9984-893-79-2
subject: Reviews, Annotations
  topic: section
subject: -
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creator: Lina Būgienė
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-07-16
publication date: 2025-07-16
starting page: 130
ending page: 136
doi: 10.51554/TD.25.69.07

On the Occasion of Publication of Janina Degutytė’s Letters
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description: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Pokalbis su knygos sudarytoja GIEDRE ŠMITIENE ir moksline redaktore JURGA JONUTYTE
subject: Interviews
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subject: -
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creator: Lina Būgienė
creator: Giedrė Šmitienė
creator: Jurga Jonutytė
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-07-16
publication date: 2025-07-16
starting page: 111
ending page: 129
doi: 10.51554/TD.25.69.06

Touched by Venus: The Concept and Treatment of Syphilis in the First Half of the 20th Century Lithuania
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description: <strong style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" data-mce-fragment="1"> <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;" data-mce-fragment="1">In this article, using studies by the Lithuanian and foreign medical historians, data from archaeological research conducted in Lithuania, and the interwar press, I delve into the history of a new disease appearing in Europe at the end of the 15<sup style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" data-mce-fragment="1">th<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tex…
subject: Articles
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subject: syphilis
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subject: venereal diseases
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subject: history of medicine
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subject: folk medicine
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creator: Asta Skujytė-Razmienė
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-07-16
publication date: 2025-07-16
starting page: 87
ending page: 110
doi: 10.51554/TD.25.69.05

Modern Situational Sayings by Children and Young People
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description: <p lang="en-GB" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">An important incentive for the emergence and existence of situational sayings is the eternal human desire to make fun, to surprise, to express themselves more suggestively, and when angry, to respond more or less rudely. This article presents and analyzes situational sayings existing among Lithuanian children and young people at the beginning of the 21st century. Having outlined their main features characteristic of the analyzed age group, the author demonstrates how these features are reflected in several currently popular thematic groups of the situational sayings. <p lang="en-GB" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Young people employ traditional sayings known to several generations, but often create new ones as well. The impetus for the emergence of new sayings is given by various relevant everyday phenomena and objects, as well as excellent use of the opportunities provided by the native language – consonances, puns, and diversity of word meanings. Situational sayings, like the entire modern children’s and youth folklore, are characterized by comicality, absurdity and obscenity. The use of the situ…
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: situational sayings
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subject: language games
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subject: children’s and youth folklore
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creator: Laima Anglickienė
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-07-16
publication date: 2025-07-16
starting page: 72
ending page: 86
doi: 10.51554/TD.25.69.04

Folklore in the Lithuanian Elementary Books from the 19th to the Beginning of the 20th Century
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description: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;" data-mce-fragment="1">Since the beginning of the 19<sup style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" data-mce-fragment="1">th<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;" data-mce-fragment="1"> century, the number of new Lithuanian elementary books kept growing in Lithuania. In addition to their religious content, secular content became more important, so along with prayers, truths of faith, litanies and mass texts, these publications increasingly included secular didactic pieces of fiction and various cognitive information. At the beginning of the 20<sup style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: norma…
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Lithuanian elementary books
  topic: keywords
subject: folklore at school
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subject: children’s folklore
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subject: traditional pedagogics
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subject: clandestine homeschooling
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subject: national revival
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creator: Jurga Sivickaitė-Sadauskienė
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-07-16
publication date: 2025-07-16
starting page: 48
ending page: 71
doi: 10.51554/TD.25.69.03

Conforming but not Forgetting: Stories by Partisan Children about (Non)adaptation to the Soviet Occupation
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description: <p lang="en-GB" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Based on the second generation stories collected in 2019–2024, the article examines the forms and practices of resistance and adaptation to the Soviet regime in the families of participants of the partisan war. Resistance was expressed by means of cultivating the ideas of freedom, transmitting the memory of partisan activities and repressions against partisans to the children, as well as religious practices, listening to the foreign radio stations, singing partisan and deportees’ songs, and criticism of the regime. These practices either compensated for the silenced experiences of the parents or supplemented them in terms of value. <p lang="en-GB" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Children willingly and with pride mention their parents’ non-reconciliation with the Soviet reality, but they also remember the surveillance of the families and restriction of their rights. One of the signs of adapting to the regime was participation in the Soviet children’s and youth organizations. Parents sought to ensure that their children did not stand out in public; however, this was perceived as a mere necessity that …
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: generation of partisan children
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subject: partisan war
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subject: resistance
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subject: adaptation
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subject: repressions
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creator: Greta Paskočiumaitė
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-07-16
publication date: 2025-07-16
starting page: 32
ending page: 47
doi: 10.51554/TD.25.69.02

“Maybe They Really Were Collaborators and Got Attacked?” (Non)recollections of Collaboration and the Memory Work of Different Generations in the Families
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description: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">The author of the article discusses the relationship between collective memory and memory in the families in the context of issues of collaboration with the Soviet regime, presenting theoretical and methodological assumptions that enable the analysis of the symbolic work of memory performed by three generations in sixteen Lithuanian families – grandparents who remember the entire Soviet era, parents who were born and raised during this period, and grandchildren who grew up after the “break” in the 1990s. The text emphasizes issues of (implied) collaboration that arise when family members reflect on their experience of contact with the partisan war (1944–1953) and direct or indirect confrontation with the Soviet security structures. It is based on the assumption that family members encounter dominant meanings of the occupation and the repression-based regime, embedded in the collective memory and indicating how this period of the past should be remembered and evaluated. Memories related to collaboration issues force different generations to rethink their experiences and attitudes, their current assessment of them, and young family members to reflect “which side” they were on. The analysis allows us to better understand the multi-layered nature of the issues of collaboration with the Soviet regime discussed in public debates today and the complex intersection of different levels of memory, which requires witnesses of the past and their descendants to perform complex memory work.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: collaboration
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subject: memory
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subject: generations of the family
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subject: Soviet regime
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subject: memory work
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creator: Liucija Vervečkienė
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-07-16
publication date: 2025-07-16
starting page: 13
ending page: 31
doi: 10.51554/TD.25.69.01

Foreword
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description: -
subject: Front Matter
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creator: Modesta Liugaitė-Černiauskienė
creator: Jurgita Ūsaitytė
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-07-16
publication date: 2025-07-16
starting page: 7
ending page: 11

Editorial Board and Table of Contents
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description: -
subject: Front Matter
  topic: section
subject: -
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creator: Vilma Daugirdaitė
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-07-16
publication date: 2025-07-16
starting page: 1
ending page: 6

Information
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description: -
subject: Information
  topic: section
subject: -
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creator: Rūta Latinytė
creator: Giedrė Šmitienė
creator: Vaiva Aglinskas
creator: Irena Žilienė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-01-10
publication date: 2025-01-10
starting page: 231
ending page: 244

What Do the Egodocuments of Prelate Kazimieras Steponas Šaulys Tell Us
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description: Prelato Kazimiero Stepono Šaulio dokumentai, sudarytojas Algimantas Katilius, Vilnius: Lietuvos nacionalinis muziejus, 2024, 292 p., ISBN 987-609-478-081-3
subject: Reviews, Annotations
  topic: section
subject: -
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creator: Daiva Dapkutė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-01-10
publication date: 2025-01-10
starting page: 223
ending page: 230
doi: 10.51554/TD.24.68.15

On an Unforgettable Partisan and a Slightly Forgotten Price of Freedom
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description: Apie anuos nepamirštamus laikus: Juozo Lukšos-Daumanto ir Nijolės Bražėnaitės susirašinėjimas, sudarytoja Laima Vincė-Sruoginis, Vilnius: Lietuvių literatūros ir tautosakos institutas, 2021, 478 p., ISBN 978-609-425-309-6
subject: Reviews, Annotations
  topic: section
subject: -
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creator: Greta Paskočiumaitė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-01-10
publication date: 2025-01-10
starting page: 214
ending page: 222
doi: 10.51554/TD.24.68.14

A Book not about Letters
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description: Jonas ir Adolfas Mekai, Gyvenimo lai(š)kai, sudarytojas Kęstutis Pikūnas, Vilnius: Post Scriptum. Litera, 2019, 159 / 320 p., ISBN 978-609-95853-4-5
subject: Reviews, Annotations
  topic: section
subject: -
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creator: Neringa Butnoriūtė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 206
ending page: 213
doi: 10.51554/TD.24.68.13

Letter as a Way of Survival: The Case of Etty Hillesum
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description: Etty Hillesum, Mąstanti barako širdis: laiškai iš Vesterborko lagerio, vertė Aušra Gudavičiūtė, Vilnius: Abigailė, 2021, 118 p., ISBN 9786098153217
subject: Reviews, Annotations
  topic: section
subject: -
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creator: Mantas Antanas Davidavičius
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 199
ending page: 205
doi: 10.51554/TD.24.68.12

Letters Are Like God’s Cakes. The Book of the Epistolary Legacy by Bishop Teofilius Matulionis
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description: Teofilius Matulionis. Laiškai, sudarytojas Vaidotas Žukas, Vilnius: Palaimintojo Teofiliaus Matulionio labdaros ir paramos fondas, 2023, 520 p., ISBN 978-609-08-0104-8
subject: Reviews, Annotations
  topic: section
subject: -
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creator: Vita Ivanauskaitė-Šeibutienė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-01-10
publication date: 2025-01-10
starting page: 191
ending page: 198
doi: 10.51554/TD.24.68.11

Love and Method. Lessons and Example of Arendtian Tradition
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description: Maria Tamboukou, Epistolary Narratives of Love, Gender and Agonistic Politics. An Arendtian Approach, London, New York: Routledge, 2024, 182 p., ISBN 978-1032208428
subject: Reviews, Annotations
  topic: section
subject: -
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creator: Jurga Jonutytė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-01-10
publication date: 2025-01-10
starting page: 183
ending page: 190
doi: 10.51554/TD.24.68.10

All Available Sources Must Be Relied Upon. Exploring the Context of Balys Sruoga’ Letters from Stutthof
type: item
description: -
subject: Interviews
  topic: section
subject: -
  topic: keywords
creator: Neringa Markevičienė
creator: Arūnas Bubnys
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-01-10
publication date: 2025-01-10
starting page: 173
ending page: 182
doi: 10.51554/TD.24.68.09

Does not Choose Writings or Letters – They Just Happen. On Publication of Balys Sruoga’ Letters from Stutthof
type: item
description: -
subject: Interviews
  topic: section
subject: -
  topic: keywords
creator: Giedrė Šmitienė
creator: Neringa Markevičienė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-01-10
publication date: 2025-01-10
starting page: 151
ending page: 172
doi: 10.51554/TD.24.68.08

Revelations of Partisan War in the Letters of Mingėla Family
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description: -
subject: Sources
  topic: section
subject: -
  topic: keywords
creator: Vykintas Vaitkevičius
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-01-10
publication date: 2025-01-10
starting page: 121
ending page: 150
doi: 10.51554/TD.24.68.07

Researching Documentary Heritage. Letters of Lithuanian Partisans
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description: The article discusses letters written by the participants of the Lithuanian anti-Soviet armed resistance to their family members, loved ones, comrades-in-arms, contact persons, supporters, as well as provocateurs and Soviet collaborators. This is the first attempt at covering this unique part of the documentary heritage of the partisan war, which has survived in the archives hidden by the partisans themselves, files from the state security agency and the criminal ones, and by the families of the fighters’ relatives, and has not been researched so far. Using the method of content analysis, the author of the article examines over 400 letters written by the partisans under wartime conditions, presenting in more detail letters of farewell, concern, longing and love, news or agreements. He uses two examples to show the exceptional value of the partisan letters as historical sources. Special attention is given to the communication networks and contact persons who made the partisan mail service operational and correspondence possible. It is concluded that partisan letters in Lithuanian history and culture are war letters, or war correspondence, imbued with pain caused by separation of the freedom fighters from their families and the loved ones, as well as their concern for the living conditions and fate of the latter. However, these letters also express their determination to fight, hatred for the enemy, and love of the homeland. Although the content of many partisan letters is businesslike, they often openly reveal or imply the fragile existential situation of the freedom fighters.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: anti-Soviet resistance of 1944–1953
  topic: keywords
subject: communication network
  topic: keywords
subject: documentary heritage
  topic: keywords
subject: letters
  topic: keywords
creator: Vykintas Vaitkevičius
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-01-10
publication date: 2025-01-10
starting page: 101
ending page: 120
doi: 10.51554/TD.24.68.06

Linguistic Attitudes and Activities of Petras Klimas. Diplomat’s Written Language in Private Correspondence
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description: The epistolary legacy of diplomat Petras Klimas is valuable not only in terms of disclosing the geopolitical, social and cultural reality of the interwar Lithuania and Europe, but also as an important corpus of manuscripts enabling us to trace the development of the written language. Having evaluated the field of P. Klimas’ activities that is currently rather overlooked by the modern scholarly discourse, i. e. his endeavors to accumulate the resources of the living language, to enhance the prestige of the Lithuanian language, and to solve issues related to its development, the author of the article identified the typical features of his written language and compiled a collection of paremias. The study is based on a hitherto unanalyzed correspondence of P. Klimas and his wife Bronislava Klimienė. An analysis of his personal writings has brought to light orthographical variations and causes, as well as the national attitudes reflected in his modified spelling. P. Klimas, it turns out, often inserted paremia, various French words and even words of his own making following Lithuanian standard word-formation, into his speech. This has allowed him to shape a unique, distinctive prose style that merges traditional (ethnic) and modern (Western) elements.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Petras Klimas
  topic: keywords
subject: egodocument
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subject: written language
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subject: paremia
  topic: keywords
creator: Deimantė Aidukaitė-Mikelionienė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-01-10
publication date: 2025-01-10
starting page: 73
ending page: 100
doi: 10.51554/TD.24.68.05

“I Hate Writing Letters!”: Social Portrait of Vincas Mykolaitis-Putinas in His Correspondence
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description: The article purports to introduce the social background of the famous Lithuanian poet Vincas Mykolaitis-Putinas, outlining his main social connections. Having surveyed the corpus of his correspondence, the author interprets the map of the social relationships maintained by the poet, attempting to establish the ways by which these letters could (and did) make impact on his literary creativity. The surveyed materials include egodocuments written from 1910 till 1967 and stored at the Lithuanian Archives of Literature and Art, Maironis Lithuanian Literature Museum in Kaunas, the manuscript collection of the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, and the Vilnius University Library. The considerable amount of letters could be classified according to certain criteria: the addressees (family members, relatives, colleagues, classmates, strangers, editors and translators) and contents (businesslike, aimed at maintaining the relationships, egocentric, esthetical). The types of the addressees also shape the structure of the article, since this study is oriented at social analysis rather than at a historical survey. Letters enabling to establish bidirectional relationships functioned at that time as the most common form of communication, as well as means of learning the news and gaining emotional support. V. Mykolaitis-Putinas rarely initiated the correspondence himself; however, he felt obliged to answer the letters that he received, at least those from his acquaintances. Among the most interesting letters are those written by the admirers who were usually unrelated to the poet. These people expressed their admiration of the poet’s work, suggested translating it, sent their own creative attempts, and sometimes also criticized (albeit rarely and mostly anonymously). Why did these people write this, especially bearing in mind that in the Soviet period, when many in the occupied Lithuania did not dare discuss certain topics in writing and were even afraid to talk about t…
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Vincas Mykolaitis-Putinas
  topic: keywords
subject: social relationships
  topic: keywords
subject: epistolary
  topic: keywords
subject: egodocuments
  topic: keywords
subject: communication
  topic: keywords
subject: esthetics
  topic: keywords
subject: narrative identity
  topic: keywords
creator: Giedrė Kazlauskaitė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-01-10
publication date: 2025-01-10
starting page: 51
ending page: 72
doi: 10.51554/TD.24.68.04

Correspondence Time as an Alternative Plane: Togetherness, Encounter, Virtuality
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description: The article is based on a mutual correspondence by a married couple, written in the middle of the 20th century to and from the places of imprisonment. The aim is revealing, with the help of this correspondence, the role of the common letter as an artefact maintaining the relationship between these close people, and its capacity of creating the virtual common duality of time. The notion of time in this article focuses on simultaneity (Alfred Schutz); however, the author demonstrates how written correspondence on paper creates a special kind of this temporary modus. Handwritten letters display traces of movement left by their author’s hand, thus enabling a peculiar experience of intercorporeality, or a bodily presence of another person (Tim Ingold). Therefore, rather than just conveying the meaningful content, they are capable of infecting the reader with their author’s state of mind (the notion of infection here is borrowed from Eric Landowski). The practice of corresponding enabled its participants to distance themselves from the real time and space (that is, from the painful surroundings of imprisonment), and to move into the virtual time (Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze). The author maintains that, rather than signifying uncertainty, illusion or mistake, such virtuality may be perceived as a readily available, benevolent status of mind, which is typical for humans finding themselves in painful situations, and familiar to many. The author also discusses the ethical and methodical issues raised by researching such kind of material. She concludes that if the material is enabled to speak first (Maria Tamboukou), its details leave traces that can be followed and interpreted, enabling us to broaden our understanding of this human activity (Adriana Cavarero, Hanna Meretoja).
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: letter
  topic: keywords
subject: simultaneity
  topic: keywords
subject: narrative unconsciousness
  topic: keywords
subject: virtuality
  topic: keywords
creator: Jurga Jonutytė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-01-10
publication date: 2025-01-10
starting page: 28
ending page: 50
doi: 10.51554/TD.24.68.03

Epistolary Becomings: Archival Traces and Diffractive Readings
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description: In this paper, I offer the concept of diffraction as both a methodological approach and an epistemological lens. This dual move has guided my archival research, encompassing various types of archival documents, and has shaped my reading, understanding, and analysis of letters by European women mathematicians, who lived and worked in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The discussion draws on a Leverhulme-funded research project of writing a feminist genealogy of automathographies, tracing the process of becoming a woman mathematician, philosopher, and scientist. I argue that analogue, digitised, and photographed letters should be regarded as distinct types of archival documents, each positioning the researcher in unique, but entangled ways relative to their sources and data. Furthermore, recognizing the interweaving of personal and scientific elements in the correspondence of women mathematicians is crucial for understanding the formation of the female self in the realms of gender, science, and mathematics.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: archives
  topic: keywords
subject: diffraction
  topic: keywords
subject: letters
  topic: keywords
subject: the personal and the scientific
  topic: keywords
subject: women mathematicians
  topic: keywords
creator: Maria Tamboukou
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-01-10
publication date: 2025-01-10
starting page: 15
ending page: 27
doi: 10.51554/TD.24.68.02

Foreword
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description: -
subject: Front Matter
  topic: section
subject: -
  topic: keywords
creator: Giedrė Šmitienė
creator: Jurga Jonutytė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 7
ending page: 14
doi: 10.51554/TD.24.68.01

Editorial Board and Table of Contents
type: item
description: -
subject: Front Matter
  topic: section
subject: -
  topic: keywords
creator: Vilma Daugirdaitė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-01-07
publication date: 2025-01-07
starting page: 1
ending page: 6

Greta Paskočiumaitė defended her thesis “Lithuanian Partisan War Narrative: a Study of Three Generations”
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description: -
subject: Information
  topic: section
subject: -
  topic: keywords
creator: Lina Būgienė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-07-15
publication date: 2024-07-15
starting page: 191
ending page: 192
doi: 10.51554/TD.24.67.13

Profesoriaus Kazio Grigo 100-osioms gimimo metinėms skirta tarptautinė konferencija
type: item
description: -
subject: Information
  topic: section
subject: -
  topic: keywords
creator: Dalia Zaikauskienė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-07-15
publication date: 2024-07-15
starting page: 183
ending page: 190
doi: 10.51554/TD.24.67.12

https://www.journals.vu.lt/td/en/article/view/35934
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title: “Looking at the World, I Spot Small Details”: the Researcher‘s View on Folklore, Mythology, and Local Culture. A conversation with the National Jonas Basanavičius Prize Winner for 2023 Daiva Vaitkevičienė
description: -
subject: Interviews
  topic: section
subject: -
  topic: keywords
creator: Lina Leparskienė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-07-12
publication date: 2024-07-12
starting page: 169
ending page: 182
doi: 10.51554/TD.24.67.11