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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Ars Amatoria"”.
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Empedoclean Elegy: Love, Strife and the Four Elements in Ovid's Amores, Ars Amatoria and Fasti
… I examine Ovid's use in the Amores, Ars Amatoria and Fasti of the concepts of love, strife and the four elements, which were closely identified with the philosopher-poet Empedocles in antiquity. My dissertation has two parts: in the first I demonstrate that in the Amores and Ars …
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Ars Audax: The Myth of the Flight of Icarus and Its Reception Since Antiquity
When considering the reception of Icarus, scholars traditionally have not taken into account the focalizing character. In this thesis I argue that there are two divergent threads of reception for the Icarus myth, stemming from the versions in Ovids Ars Amatoria and Metamorphoses and in Horace's …
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Schwierigkeiten ästhetischer Bildung : mit ständigem Blick auf die kritische Theorie Theodor W. Adornos
… Überzeugungen in der Memorialkunst, der Ars amatoria in Bizets Oper Carmen und der Rezeptionsgeschichte des Nibelungenliedes analysiert, die Metamorphosen der Wirklichkeit in ihrer möglichen Ästhetisierung dargelegt und deren Relation zu einer kritischen ästhetischen Bildung vorbereitet. …
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Gender, Power, and Persona in the Poetry of Baudri of Bourgueil
… power at play in Ovid’s works, in particular the Ars Amatoria and Amores. Baudri uses his position of authority to manipulate his inferiors into behaving in ways that are pleasing to him, crafting an unflattering persona that shares many characteristics with the unsympathetic Ovidian amator and …
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Varying Virtue : Mythological Paragons of Wifely Virtues in Roman Elegy
… as intertexts and the re-inscription of the Ars amatoria into the exilic poetry. Furthermore, we note that these mythological characters become vehicles for metapoetic statements on ‘canonical’ elegy, confirming the traditional tendency of that genre. In conclusion, the dissertation shows …
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Environmental Change in Ovid's Poetry
… impact on nature—habitually invoked by scholars to describe this process—does not do justice to the subtlety and complexity of Ovid’s poetry. Reading Ovid requires thinking of "cultivation" (Latin, "cultus") as an emergent and unstable process of negotiation with nonhumans (plants, animals, …
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<i>Vim Parat</i>: Patterns of Sexualized Violence, Victim-Blaming, and Sororophobia in Ovid
… patterns. Despite the fact that previous scholars have done substantial analyses of the patterns of sexualized violence and rape in Ovid’s texts, my dissertation demonstrates—for the first time—how and why the phenomena of victim-blaming and sororophobia should be seen as fundamental parts of …