The Literary Field under Communist Rule

Aušra Jurgutienė is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore. She has published more than seventy articles and is author of New Romanticism from Longing (1998) and The Art of Literary Interpretation: The Hermeneutical Tradition (2013). She is also the chief editor and co-author of academic textbooks and readers in literary theory.Satkauskytė Dalia :

Dalia Satkauskyte is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore. She is the author of Language Consciousness in Lithuanian Poetry (1996), Profiles of Subjectivity in Lithuanian Literature (2008), and more than forty articles in Lithuanian, English, Russian, French, Polish, and German on contemporary literature, literary theory, and sociocriticism.

Aušra Jurgutienė is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore. She has published more than 70 articles and is author of two monographs in Lithuanian: New Romanticism from Longing (1998), and The Art of Literary Interpretation: The Hermeneutical Tradition (2013). She is also the editor and co-author of academic textbooks and readers in literary theory.

Dalia Satkauskyte is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore. She is the author of monographs in Lithuanian Language Consciousness in Lithuanian Poetry (1996) and Profiles of Subjectivity in Lithuanian Literature (2008), and author of more than forty articles in Lithuanian, English, Russian, French, Polish, and German on contemporary literature, literary theory, and sociocriticism.

“The great merit of this book is the fact that it attempts to go beyond the borders of studies dedicated to a specific national literature, and offers a suitable methodology for this effort. There is now a dire lack of volumes that present Soviet culture as multinational and multilingual and offer new methods of its analysis. Jurgutienė and Satkauskytė’s volume is a successful example of a discussing multinational Soviet literature.”

“This volume meets its stated ambition of overcoming the ‘dualistic schemes’ that often afflict research on Soviet literature through a judicious application of the concept of the literary field. The book should be of interest to students and teachers of history, politics, literature, Soviet studies, and related fields. It has a unique value for its sophisticated treatment of the subject matter and coverage of non-Russian literatures of the former USSR.”

—Violeta Davoliūtė, Lithuanian Culture Reseach Institute, Lithuanian Historical Studies

“This collection brings a variety of perspectives to bear on the role and significance of literature in the USSR, specifically on the nature and function of what the editors call Soviet multinational literature. … This volume meets its stated ambition of overcoming the ‘dualistic schemes’ that often afflict research on Soviet literature through a judicious application of the concept of the literary field. The book should be of interest to students and teachers of history, politics, literature, Soviet studies, and related fields. It has a unique value for its sophisticated treatment of the subject matter and coverage of non-Russian literatures of the former USSR.” —Violeta Davoliūtė, Lithuanian Culture Research Institute, Lithuanian Historical Studies, vol. 23