Birutė Ciplijauskaitė (11 April 1929 in

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– 19 June 2017) was a Lithuanian literary scholar and translator. She is considered one of the greatest

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in American academia in the twentieth century. The daughter of physician and gynecologist, director of

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hospital, she attended Kaunas Conservatory and fled Lithuania during World War II. She graduated from the

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in 1956 and then the

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. She received her PhD in Spanish and

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from

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in 1960. Her dissertation, that she wrote under the supervision of Spanish philosopher

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, explored the topic of 'soledad' in twentieth-century Spanish poetry. Ciplijauskaitė taught Spanish at the

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from 1960 until 2000, and was a professor from 1968. Ciplijauskaitė has been an adviser for the Lithuanian-American cultural journal ''

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''.

Bibliography

* ''La soledad en el destierro'', Ínsula, 1962 * ''La soledad y la poesía española contemporánea'', Ínsula, 1963 * ''El poeta y la poesía: del romanticismo a la poesía social'', Ínsula, 1966 * (ed.) Luis de Góngora y Argote, ''Sonetos completos'', Castalia, 1968 * '' Baroja, un estilo'', Ínsula, 1972 * ''Deber de plenitud, la poesía de

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, Secretaría de educación pública'', 1973 * Birutė Ciplijauskaitė (ed.), ''

'', Taurus, 1975 * Birutė Ciplijauskaitė (ed.), ''Homenaje a

Juan Ramón Jiménez Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón (; 23 December 1881 – 29 May 1958) was a Spanish poet, a prolific writer who received the 1956 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his lyrical poetry, which in the Spanish language constitutes an example of high ...

'', Fundación Universitaria Española, seminario "Ménendez Pelayo, 1982 * ''Los Noventayochistas y la historia'', J. Porrúa Turanzas, 1981 * ''La mujer insatisfecha : el adulterio en la novela realista'', Edhasa, 1984 * ''Juegos de duplicación e inversión en "

La Celestina ''The Tragicomedy of Calisto and Melibea'' (), known in Spain as ''La Celestina'', is a work entirely in dialogue published in 1499. Sometimes called in English ''The Spanish Bawd'', it is attributed to Fernando de Rojas, a descendant of conv ...

"'', Gredos, 1988 * ''La novela femenina contemporánea 1970-1985 : hacia una tipología de la narración en primera persona'', Anthropos, 1988 * Birutė Ciplijauskaitė (ed.), ''La voluntad de humanismo: homenaje a

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'', Anthropos, 1990 * Birutė Ciplijauskaitė (ed.), ''Novísimos, postnovísimos, clásicos: la poesía de los 80 en España'', Orígenes, 1991 * ''Vingt poètes lituaniens d'aujourd'hui'', Éditions du Petit Véhicule, 1997 * ''De signos y significaciones. 1 : poetas del 27'', Anthropos, 1999 * '' Carmen Martín Gaite (1925-2000)'', Ediciones del Orto, 2000 * ''La construcción del yo femenino en la literatura'', Universidad de Cádiz. Servicio de publicaciones, 2004

References

1929 births 2017 deaths Lithuanian literary historians Lithuanian women historians Writers from Kaunas Université de Montréal alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty Hispanists 20th-century Lithuanian women writers 20th-century Lithuanian non-fiction writers Lithuanian women anthropologists Women literary historians Lithuanian emigrants to Germany Canadian emigrants to the United States 20th-century Lithuanian translators {{Lithuania-bio-stub