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THE SPACES OF WOMEN’S DIALOGUE: RENDEZVOUS OF THE POETRY AND THE FINE ART BY EDITA NAZARAITĖ’S WORKS

Literary Сriticism

Authors

  • Kolevinskienė Žydronė PhD (Humanities, Philology), Associate Professor

Annotation

The subject of the article is the oeuvre of Lithuanian émigré poet and painter Edita Nazaraitė. The paper aims at finding common, unifying features of her poems and pain- tings and tries to highlight some of the image-building strategies. A comparative seman- tic analysis of Nazaraitė’s poetic imagery, highlighting its links with the artwork, is car- ried out. The article reveals how poetic and art “texts” meet. It is noted that the poems and paintings share the same dominant images — a cat, horse, butterfly, women’s silhouette, and others. Nazaraitė’s poetry is visual, full of details and objects, and her paintings in vivid colors are as if telling the story of a woman’s life.
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