Literature as the Media System or What are Media for Marius Katiliškis? Cover Image

Literatūra Kaip Medijų Sistema Arba Kas Yra Medija Mariui Katiliškiui ?
Literature as the Media System or What are Media for Marius Katiliškis?

Author(s): Saulius Keturakis
Subject(s): Media studies, Photography, Lithuanian Literature, Philosophy of Language, Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Hermeneutics
Published by: Visuomeninė organizacija »LOGOS«
Keywords: literature; media; media system; orality; writing; photography; radio; cinema;

Summary/Abstract: This research paper has got two aims. The first is related to the idea by Wolfgang Iser, that is the so called medial turn which has dicplaced literature from the central position in the cultural paradigm and transformed it to media equal to all the other forms of it. Analysis of the novell „Mi kais ateina ruduo“ by Marius Katili kis is linked to the idea by German cultural theorist Oliver Jahraus about literature as the media system, which allows to interpret literature as a part of the theory of a modern subject. In this way literature has been restored to the dominating position in culture. The second aim of this research paper is to analyse an encounter of the tradition with the different technological linguistic, acoustic and visual media in the novel by Marius Katilikis, to show a reflection of human being in the mediated reality, which seems to be for the first time so consistently accomplished in the whole history of the Lithuanian critical thinking.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 64
  • Page Range: 179-189
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Lithuanian