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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Biblical epic."”.
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Rhetoric, education, and the affections in seventeenth-century biblical epic.
… dissertation shows how three seventeenth-century biblical epics— Abraham Cowley's Davideis, John Milton's Paradise Regained, and Lucy Hutchinson's Order and Disorder—use rhetorical praise and blame for the moral and spiritual formation of their readers. In my study of these authors' biblical …
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Geography of the Middle East through the Western Lens: A Survey of Films Set in the Middle East and Filmed in the American Southwest
… early decades of the film industry, through the “Biblical Epic,” and in modern geopolitical depictions. This intertwining of geographic place and themes developed a violent vision of the Middle East that has remained the foundation of what we currently understand to be the region in film. </p> …
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Trans Metamorphoses: Gender, Race, and Classical Receptions
… popular romance, early drama, Ovidian myth, and biblical epic, the project argues that literary figures inherited from classical antiquity can reveal racial and historical blind spots within trans studies now: until recently, the field has largely overlooked the premodern invention of race. Lurid …
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The epic in France from Piron's La Louisiade (1745) to Chateaubriand's Les Martyrs (1809)
… has as its object to investigate the fate of epic in France in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Piron's La Louisiade of 1745 and Chateaubriand's Les Martyrs of 1809 are chosen to indicate the precise delimitation of the period of study. Given the incidence of epic …
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To teach, move, meditate, and oppose : Lucy Hutchinson's rhetoric in Order and Disorder.
Lucy Hutchinson's biblical poetic paraphrase, Order and Disorder, employs rhetorical strategies that enable her to teach and move her audience, meditate for her own spiritual benefit, and oppose the atomistic doctrine of Lucretius. In this dissertation, I begin to examine the poem using a …
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Fifth-century CE Greek Christian verse paraphrase
… focuses on the literary phenomenon of Greek Biblical epic, that is, the rewriting of Christian prose narratives in the form of hexameter verse. It examines how such a transformation of form raised profound questions about the relationship between Christian and classical culture, through three …
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History's Perilous Pleasures: Experiencing Antiquity in the Postwar Hollywood Epic
… focuses on the mid-20th Century historico-biblical epic—a film genre that flourished within Hollywood from 1949 to 1966 and which took as its subject the depiction of the ancient world—and reads this body of films as a mode of historical engagement. I argue that the historico-biblical epic …
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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>
… out of which the allusive program of Sedulius’ biblical epic poem <i>Paschale Carmen</i> arose, and culminates in a reading of select passages of the <i>Paschale Carmen</i>. In particular, it focuses on Vergilian reception by Christian and non-Christian writers of the fourth and fifth centuries …
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Meditative poetry, covenant theology, and Lucy Hutchinson's order and disorder.
… Order and Disorder (1679), Lucy Hutchinson's biblical epic on Genesis, is a meditative poem, while claiming that Hutchinson's study of Independent theologian John Owen's covenant theology informed her narration of the events in Genesis. I offer a reading of the poem as a whole to show how …
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‘And eall worulde gesceaft’: Re-Reading the Natural World in Old English Biblical Poetry
… argues that the hybrid nature of Old English biblical poetry is evident in its complex representation of the natural world — which is shaped by a mesh of traditions including biblical source material, Old English poetics and Latin biblical epic. Throughout this thesis the main insights come …
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The Nature of the Interplay of Classical and Biblical Intertexts in Milton's Poetry
… of death. Two out of three of the great ancient epics, Homer’s <i>Odyssey</i> and Virgil’s <i>Aeneid</i>, therefore, set the <i>catabasis</i> at the centre of the poem to mark its distinction. Previous scholarship has argued that Milton removed <i>catabasis</i> from the centre to outlying …