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The article focuses on the textual history of the Ruthenian translation of the Czech book entitled Lucidář (Lucidarius), a medieval encyclopedic treatise consisting of the student’s questions and the teacher’s answers, which was most widespread in the ...
Sergejus Temčinas
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Kohalikud tavad ja pühaduse poliitika Trakai järvestiku piirkonnas [PDF]
The lakeland of Trakai is a historically, culturally, and ecologically meaningful place in Lithuania, an important realm of memory and symbol of national identity.
Lina Leparskienė
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Transcending the painful boundaries...: a few additions to Vanda Zaborskaitėʼs biography
The article presents the years of work of the literary scholar, Professor Vanda Zaborskaitė at Vilnius University and at Vilnius Pedagogical Institute from 1966 to 1994.
Žydronė Kolevinskienė
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The object of the research is the conception of infectious/contagious (‘sticking’) diseases in Lithuanian folklore. The dissertation is aimed at the exploration of the conception of the ‘sticking diseases’ in Lithuanian folklore. The research attempts to determine the framework of the conception and what factors might have governed classification of a ...
Skujytė-Razmienė, Asta,
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Why Semioticians Love Vaižgantas, or the Never-ending Testing of the Method
This research was inspired by the anniversaries of Algirdas Julius Greimas, Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas and Kęstutis Nastopka that encouraged rethinking the relationship with tradition, while viewing it from several perspectives: biographical-cultural links,
Loreta Mačianskaitė
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DO STOCK MARKET FLUCTUATIONS AFFECT SUICIDE RATES?
Abstract In this study, we extend the standard economic model of suicide by considering a new influential factor driving the voluntary death rate. Using an international sample, we estimate the model and document a robust and significant inverse relation between stock market returns and the percentage increase in suicide rates.
Tomasz Piotr Wisniewski +2 more
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The subject of the article is the world of a person with an intellectual disability in the comedy drama of Belgian director Jac von Dormael “Le huitième jour” (1996, “The Eighth Day”).
Dalia Jakaitė
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Beginnings of Literary Images of a Lithuanian and Lithuania in Latvia
In Latvian literature since the second half of the 19th century, Lithuanians, Lithuania, its history, its particular sites are quite often depicted in some specific view, sometimes comprehensively, conceptually, sometimes episodically, passingly.
Vigmantas Butkus
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The Great War in Lithuanian Literature and Memoirs
Works of fiction and memoirs relating to the First World War written in the Lithuanian language or by Lithuanian authors have so far not been a preoccupation of Lithuanian literary scholars.
Eugenijus Žmuida
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Approaches to the Lithuanian Folk Ballad in the Second Half of the 20th Century
This historiographic survey strives to demonstrate the considerable attention that the Lithuanian folk-ballads received in the second half of the 20th century. The historiographic material is presented systematically, while employing contextual data
Modesta Liugaitė-Černiauskienė +1 more
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