Ojārs Lāms

• Dr.philol.
• Professor at University of Latvia

The process of displacement and the large numbers of Baltic refugees due to the return of Soviet occupation at the end of World War II is important theme in literature. In the literatures of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia after war a new and long-lasting phenomenon appeared � literature of exile. This paper will turn to three texts that are from dif...

In a situation where national independence is being restored, exile objectively ceases to exist. However, in terms of people’s consciousness, experience, and culture, the situation is much more complicated. Therefore, in modern Baltic cultural studies, there is a place for an interdisciplinary field of research that focuses on the post-exile situat...

Kolektīvās monogrāfijas raksti apliecina, ka ēdiens literatūrā palīdz raksturot tautas un valsts vēsturi, sociālo dzīvi un cilvēku psiholoģiju, kā arī izmaiņas tajās politisko un ekonomisko apstākļu maiņas dēļ. Ēdienam ir būtiska nozīme sociālās, reliģiskās un nacionālās identitātes un pašidentitātes veidošanā. Gastropoētiskais diskurss paplašina l...

Ēdiens ir ilgošanās, atmiņas un identitātes svarīgs elements trimdiniekam, ēdiens atspoguļo saikni ar dzimteni, un pēctrimdiniekam tas kļūst arī par cerību un ilgu spoguli

In the broad tradition of the Latvian historical novel, which has flourished in recent decades, the authors have a strong tendency to focus either on ancient history up to the 13th century or on events important to the Latvian nation in the 19th and 20th centuries. Writers are less interested in the era of humanism in the 16th and 17th centuries wh...

This paper deals with the contemporary migration experience as seen through the subjective lens of a literary text. The analysis focuses on the novel Stroika with a London View by the Latvian diaspora writer William B. Foreignerski (Vilis Lācītis in the Latvian version). Foreignerski combines the portrayal of proletarians’ survival with entertainin...

[straipsnis ir santrauka anglų kalba, santrauka lietuvių kalba] Salomonas Frenzelis, XVI a. humanistas, paskutinius savo gyvenimo metus praleidęs Rygoje, propemptikone De vera nobilitate vartoja įvairių mitologinių ir realių gyvūnų įvaizdžius. Šie įvaizdžiai pasitelkiami kalbant apie aukštuomenės išsilavinimą ir santykį tarp nobilitas generis ir n...

The collected efforts of the national romanticists mark a longing for one’s own path within the Latvian cultural landscape, and emphasise the use and understanding of geography and space. The goal of this study is to ascertain – whether and how the created geo-spatiality of the national romanticists stands within the context of Eastern Latvia, whic...

19. gadsimtā latviešu pirmās rakstnieku un kultūras darbinieku paaudzes, kuras savā daiļradē un darbībā pievēršas Latvijas tēla un latviešu kopīgās pasaules konstruēšanai, ģeotelpiskajā priekšstatos par Latviju uzmanību pievērš tādai ģeogrāfisko vietu un vides modeļu izvēlei, kuri Latvijas koptēlā ļauj ieraudzīt arī Austrumlatviju. Austrumlatvijas...

The image of Hyperboreans describes the Northeast border of Europe that has historically been in a pendular state between the cultural values of the West, East, and local pagan ones. Early modern times were a crucial period in the shaping of regional identity features as at that particular time Livonian Order collapsed and Livonia was devastated by...

The focus of this article is on the prolific and variegated translation possibilities of the substantivations of Ancient Greek in the text under translation into Latvian – Aristotle’s „Rhetoric”. The potential translations of Ancient Greek substantivations are examined from the viewpoint of conversion, elliptic substantivations and substantivated s...

This article describes a general overview of a particular approach of translating an Ancient Greek text into Latvian. The translators (of whom the authors of the article are a part) have devised a translational approach, which sets as its goal the elimination of unnecessary influences of historically predominant intermediary languages (e.g. German,...

The problem of rendering Ancient Greek proper names into Latvian is as old as the written Latvian language itself. Respectively, this problem has been studied on a wide scale, but still the new translations of ancient texts force to review the former and current renditions and reevaluate them. Historically a significant impact on the principles of...

Research was written on the 120th anniversary of Andrejs Pumpur's Latvian national epic "Lācplēsis" (Beraslayer). The purpose of the monograph is to trace the creation of the Latvian epic, looking at and analyzing all the most important literary attempts to create a Latvian epic in the literature of the XIX and XX centuries, exploring and evaluatin...