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Showing 1 to 20 of 85 for “"Allusion"”.
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Shakespeare's Henry V and the Alexandrian Allusion
… of this passage; a close examination of the allusion, however, reveals serious flaws in the theories of both scholars. Berman asserts that Henry is a reconstruction of Alexander, but an extended comparison of the two men confirms that, although they have a number of attitudes and …
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Allusion, aesthetics, and nationalism in James Joyce's Dubliners
… its seeks to displace, unsuited to modernity. Allusions are a central component of Joyce's critique of these institutional structures. The act of alluding, Joyce recognizes, is a means of cultural production and of social and political control. Dubliners is not merely mimetic; Joyce's stories …
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"Studies in Allusion in the ""Eclogues"" of Vergil"
"Vergil has ""analyzed"" the corpus of Theocritus by using only the bucolic Idylls and reworking them; there is not a one to one correspondence between individual Idylls and Eclogues. In the Aeneid, Vergil takes a single author as a primary model and analyzes his works, using them to create …
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Intertextuality and Allusion in the Study of the Hebrew Bible
… exegesis and interpretation, echoes, allusion--all of which it uses to signify when a biblical text refers to another text that appears elsewhere in Bible. This study examines the way such academic language is shaped by and shapes the assumptions of biblical scholarship. It examines …
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Early Greek Indexicality: Markers of Allusion in Archaic Greek Poetry
… literary history and the nature of archaic Greek allusion. It examines how our earliest Greek poets self-consciously marked and signalled their interactions with other texts and traditions, often in a deeply antagonistic fashion. In recent years, scholars have explored how Roman poets signposted …
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White Knowledge and the Cauldron of Story: The Use of Allusion in Terry Pratchett's Discworld.
… Pratchett's success hinges in part on his use of allusion, in what Tolkien called the "Cauldron of Story," and what Pratchett refers to as "white knowledge." This paper explores the Discworld novels and illustrates Pratchett's use and success of storytelling through a few key directions: folk …
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The Influence and Use of Daniel in the Synoptic Gospels
… book of Daniel in the Synoptic Gospels. Various allusions to Daniel have been discussed in numerous articles, monographs and commentaries. Now we have for the first time a comprehensive look at all the possible allusions to Daniel in one study.</p> <p>All the cases are discussed and given an …
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Zechariah: Select Problems and Allusive Solutions
… texts (1:3, 1:11, 5:5-11, and 11) in light of allusions to other texts in order to exhibit the usefulness of an allusive approach to the interpretation of the book of Zechariah. In addition to providing new interpretations to these select texts, it discusses the issue of Zechariah’s method of …
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Allusions of grandeur : figurative language use in rap lyrics
This dissertation examines allusions among a corpus of rap lyrics to find their uses and functions. The functions of the allusions, as defined by Leppihalme, 1997, of interest are the puzzle (to identify someone with similar social knowledge), humor, to indicate cultural breadth, and …
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Hidden Doublings: A Context for Understanding Jean d'Arras's Mélusine ou la Noble Histoire de Lusignan
… reader to take the work seriously. Through his allusion to Tilbury, Jean d’Arras establishes a context and a doubling for the story-line which he so repetitiously tells. Through his allusion to David we see a doubling for Raymondin, who in fact bears the name of earthly king, a position which …
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The Allusions to the Saints in the Canterbury Tales, Their Appropriateness
… of a series of commentaries on Chaucer's allusions to saints in the Canterbury Tales. The allusions have been studied in connection with the narrator of the tale, the lines, the characters, and the general spirit of the tale to ascertain possible reasons for making reference to the saint …
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The Modern Domus: An Exploration of Roman Brick
… construction, a process irrelevant to historical allusion.
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Jesus Caesar : a Roman reading of John 18:28 - 19:22
… Vergil’s Aeneid (6.791) to mark it as a literary allusion. An exegetical analysis of John 18:28—19:22, the passages most imprinted with Latin words and Roman concepts, reveals a Roman Pilate who tests the loyalty of both Jesus and ‘the Jews’ to Caesar. This exegesis, furthermore, provides the data …
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Nothung up my sleeve : the Wagnerian impulses in James Joyce's Ulysses and A portrait of the artist as a young man
… viz. the importance of the Wagnerian themes and allusions in James Joyce's Ulysses and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, considering existing studies of the same subject, as well as elucidating the structure and argument of the dissertation as a whole. In Chapters 111-V, the argument …
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Polyfocal structures in Franz Schubert's Lieder
… structures and will be referred to as tonal allusions. More specifically, proleptic allusion will refer to chromaticism that anticipates a tonic, and analeptic allusion to chromaticism that recalls a tonic. Many composers have written polyfocal compositions, but the first to write a …
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The Gothic Presence of Poland in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
… A Fragment' (1805), the reference to Silesia and allusion to Poland is code for Poland's 1794 revolution against partitioning powers Austria, Prussia, and Russia. The allusion registers fears of outside threats to the sovereignty of the young, vulnerable United States. As code for the major …
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“God loves you but not enough to save you”: Patriarchal Authority and Feminine Punishment in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar and Ethel Cain’s Preacher’s Daughter
… and denote patriarchal subjects’ consistent allusion to Biblical functions as reasoning for their systematic torment.
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<i>Quid facit cum evangeliis Maro?</i> The Cultural Background of Sedulius' Intertextual Argument with Vergil in the <i>Paschale carmen</i>
… poetics but enacts it in a virtuosic use of allusion to, for example, Vergil and Lucretius while narrating Scriptural vignettes. Such a practice was continued and carried out on a large scale in Sedulius’ poem, where he (whether knowingly or not)answered Paulinus’ call for a classical poetics …
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