摘要：The present article deals with literary monographs, research works on Lithuanian studies of the latter decades showing the dominant tendencies, conceptions, theories, methods, authentic ideas. The analysis shows that studies written in the historical comparative method revealing discourses of life and creation precisely define neither theory nor method, the critical review is not an important criterion, and fiction texts as well as contexts of authors’ lives are considered as the basis. Monographs dealing with subjects of genre development and poetics evidence the turn towards theory, methodology. Semiotics (semiotics by A. J. Greimas and Lotman) became the guide of the theoretical renewal and later on was joined by philosophical phenomenology and comparative research. The traditional comparative research is the literary research, whereas the contemporary comparative research is the interdisciplinary cultural studies’ research authors of which borrow the theory(-ies)/method(-s) from other disciplines while constructing their own methodology. Other theories – myth criticism, post-colonialism, narratology, the new historicism, literary sociology, linguistic poetics, feminist criticism – are made relevant in single works by literary critics. The conclusions state that the research has revealed a changing and quite often problematic authors’ relation to theory/methodology, quite free approach to the genre of the monograph, many authentic ideas, transcending boundaries of Lithuanian studies.
