Rhetoric in Lithuanian homiletics: musical aspects

Abstract

Lithuanian homiletics, although having long-lived traditions (K. Sirvydas, A. Baranauskas, S. Gimžauskas, . etc.), is almost not explored rhetorically. During the times of the restored Lithuanian independence, the collections of sermons of prominent Lithuanian priests T. Stanislovas, K. Vasiliauskas, J. Sasnauskas were published, but the principles of rhetoric of this genre in the works of specific preachers are not analysed. At the moment, when technological culture is more and more prospering, when various possibilities of postmodern culture are thriving, it becomes especially important to keep the spiritual cultural heritage as the fundament of eternal values. The paper would discuss the most significant peculiarities of rhetoric in the sermons of T. Stanislovas, K. Vasiliauskas, J. Sasnauskas, also, the aspects of their musicality are analysed as well as the principles of composition in correlation with the concepts of the passions and music forms. etc. The research will be based on comparative methodology and on the works of E. Tarasti, I. Buckley, Cl. Geertz, A. J.Greimas, K. Fontanille, K. Nastopka, Cl. Geertz, W.Wolf, and others.