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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Classical Reception"”.
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Receiving A Queen: A Queer and Trans Feminist Classical Reception Rhetorical Historiography of Elagabalus
… interdisciplinary approach, braiding together classical reception studies, circulation studies, and queer, trans, and feminist historiographical methods together to engage this scholarly conversation.</p>
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Interpretatio Hiberniana: Classical Influences in Medieval Irish Depictions of Otherworldly Characters
Interpretatio Hiberniana: Classical Influences in Medieval Irish Depictions of Otherworldly Characters Brigid Kathleen Ehrmantraut This thesis examines the reception of Classical mythology in Ireland, primarily between the tenth and thirteenth centuries, and analyzes the influence of Classical …
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The Classical in the Contemporary: Contemporary Art in Britain and its Relationships with Greco-Roman Antiquity
My thesis is titled ‘The Classical in the Contemporary: Contemporary Art in Britain and its Relationships with Greco-Roman Antiquity.’ From the viewpoint of classical reception studies, I am asking what contemporary British art (by, for example, Sarah Lucas, Damien Hirst, and Mark Wallinger) has to …
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Trans Metamorphoses: Gender, Race, and Classical Receptions
… theory, premodern critical race studies, and classical reception history, I construct a long genealogy of what we now call transgender, in which racial difference is inextricable from the assignment of sex. Through close readings of popular romance, early drama, Ovidian myth, and biblical …
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The Medieval Irish Adaptation of Lucan’s Bellum Ciuile: Manuscript Tradition and Scholarly Context
… against the background of the revival of classical scholarship in the long twelfth century (c. 1050–1250). Through comparison with a wide range of medieval manuscripts of Lucan, including recentiores mostly unpublished and neglected by modern scholars, the chapter reconstructs the …
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The Translation and Reception of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy in Renaissance Literary Culture, 1556-1674
… an equally unique set of new identities in reception, as translators remake the text in accordance with their own particular interests or those of their dedicatees. Second, I argue that the most radical of these transformations occurs in the least visible settings: while the major printed …
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Traditions of Tenderness: Sensibility and the Classics in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain
… new cultural importance of sympathy changed how classical texts were interpreted and because the literature of sensibility drew on the literature of classical antiquity. I examine the development of sentimental classicism through three chapters which chart changes in the reception of key …
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The Parted Voice: Polyvocal Utterance in Victorian Elegies
… and respond to historical changes in poetic reception over the nineteenth century. Bringing together formalist and historicist approaches, its close readings trace Victorian experiments with the recovery of voice in the wake of loss in the poetry of Letitia Landon, Alfred Tennyson, Elizabeth …
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The Trojans of the North - The Trojan matter and the End of the Icelandic Commonwealth
The thesis focuses on the reception of the Trojan matter in medieval Iceland. This was a popular theme in Icelandic literature in the period known as the Sturlungaöld (‘the age of the Sturlungar’), which ended with Iceland becoming subject to Norwegian dominion in 1264, and beyond. The Icelandic …
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Embodying the Americas through Antigone and Medea
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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Encounters with Londinium: Nineteenth-Century Responses to London’s Roman Past
In the nineteenth century, vast civic construction projects transformed London into a visibly modern capital. But as construction workers dug the foundations for London’s future, they also discovered its Roman past. In their trenches, these accidental archaeologists unearthed fine tessellated …
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'And Hector laughed': comic treatment of the myth of the Trojan War in early modern England
… the centrality of the comic mode to the reception of the myth of the Trojan War in early modern England. For a period characterised by a singular fascination with exemplarity, the Trojan myth offered an important depiction of men’s pursuit of distinction, providing both the exempla of …
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Poetical vocabulary in Dante's Commedia: imitation, emulation, superseding and redemption of the classics
Dante’s relationship with his classical models has interested many scholars over the decades, especially because of the numerous references to classical literature in the Commedia, which suggest a profound knowledge of the auctores despite the little evidence for Dante’s actual education. Previous …
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Spectres of Metre: English Poetry in Classical Measures, 1860-1930
… study uncovers a lineage of experimentation with classical metres connecting Algernon Charles Swinburne to Ezra Pound and H. D., in the process challenging received periodizations of English verse-history. The assumption that vers libre and metrical verse constitute alternate and incompatible …
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Greek antiquity, women’s modernity: hellenism in the work of Michael Field, Amy Levy and Virginia Woolf [Antichità greca, modernità delle donne: l’ellenismo nelle opere di Michael Field, Amy Levy e Virginia Woolf]
Sebbene spesso escluse dalle università e dal Grand Tour, molte donne vittoriane instaurarono un rapporto profondo con il Mediterraneo e con l’antichità greco-latina, non solo come viaggiatrici ma anche come traduttrici, studiose e interpreti culturali, sfidando i vincoli di genere nello studio …
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Ten Centuries of Celsus’s De Medicina: Practical Histories of Medical Humanism
This dissertation explores singular cases of reception of Cornelius Celsus’s De medicina between the tenth and the nineteenth century to revise accepted definitions of medical humanism and show how ancient texts spurred the development of medicine at intellectual and practical levels across ten …
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The Classical Barbarian in the Íslendingasögur
… are made with descriptions of barbarians in classical Roman texts, primarily Sallust, but also Caesar and Tacitus. Taking into account the availability and significance of classical learning in medieval Iceland, the comparison with Roman texts yields striking similarities between Roman and …
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Visualizing Ancient Empire in Tudor England: Imperial Monarchy, Reformation, and the Antique Soldier in the Title Page to Richard Grafton’s Large Chronicle (1569)
<p>This thesis analyzes the iconography and visual sources of the title page to the first volume of <em>A chronicle at large and meere history of the affayres of Englande </em>(1569) by the Tudor author Richard Grafton. Representing the visual synthesis of several distinct but interrelated currents …
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Neo-Latin America: the poetics of the "New World" in early modern epic. Studies in José Manuel Peramás's 'De Invento Novo Orbe Inductoque Illuc Christi Sacrificio' (Faenza 1777)
… to be analysed with reference not only to the classical and classicising traditions but to those same themes and concerns––in this case, the centre|periphery binary––as are investigated for counterparts when in Spanish or Portuguese. The crucial difference is that––while the ends may be the …
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Die Funktion der Atlantis-Rezeption in J. R. R. Tolkiens Númenor zwischen Empirie und Phantasie
… diesen Stoff hervorging: „Ultimately, Tolkien's reception of Atlantis is primarily based on a deep personal interest, whereby the content-based functions seem to be rather secondary.“ (Kleu, 2021, S. 210f.) Die vorliegende Arbeit möchte an Kleus Einschätzung anknüpfen, die Frage nach der Funktion …