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Showing 1 to 20 of 78 for “"Classical literature"”.
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Rewriting to reproduce beauty: a comparative case study of Hong Lou Meng
Chinese classical literature is marked by aesthetic features that have often no direct equivalent in Anglophone literature. Delivering the beauty of a Chinese text to English readers is therefore challenging. This thesis uses the Chinese classical fiction Hong Lou Meng and its two translations – …
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Willa Cather and the Classics
… works Willa Cather incorporated references to classical literature, history, and especially myth as a means of confronting personal and societal crises and of expressing the universality of human experience. In turning to the Classics, Cather reinforced her belief that only two or three human …
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An exploratory case study on the pedagogical possibilities of educational cinematic virtual reality in high school English classes.
… applications, high school student reading of classical literature in secondary English classrooms has declined. At the start of the 2020s American education's dependence on technology increased as a necessary institutional response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This exploratory case study examined …
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Parody and nostalgia : contemporary re-writing of Madame White Snake
… frenzy for writing and re-writing materials from classical literature and myths. The myth of Madame White Snake is one of the most well known stories that survived a long period of time. The earliest known version of Madame White Snake was a supernatural story in 1550, which later became a …
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The Waltzing Dead : The Merit of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
… culture. The monster mashup fuses well-known classical literature with traditional horror monsters. In PPZ, the nineteenth-century novel of manners is introduced to the twentieth century monster of the Americas, the zombie. Through this combination, new interpretations of feminism, otherness, …
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The Messenger: a One Hour Television Drama
… neurological trauma, and predestination. Various classical literature is weaved into the series including: Shakespeare, Norwegian mythology, Grimm's Fairy Tales, and the Bible. The intention of the series is to delve deeper into the psyche and to explore scientific and religious ideas in ways that …
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Richard Wilson: Landscape painting for a new Exhibition Culture
… of the eighteenth century. He painted in a classical style shaped by the works of masters such as Claude Lorrain, Gaspard Dughet and Nicholas Poussin and gained inspiration from his travels and classical literature. His life spanned much of a century which saw an enormous shift in the …
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Space in Aristophanes: Portraying the Civic and Domestic Worlds in Acharnians, Knights, and Wasps
This dissertation explores the treatment of the scenic and diegetic space in Aristophanes' Acharnians, Knights, and Wasps, and the comedies' attitude towards a variety of domestic and civic spaces, taking into consideration the cultural context in which the plays were composed. I argue that by …
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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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The 'Last Philosophy' Enquiring into the 'First': The Influence of Classical Thought on Theodor W. Adorno
Adorno discerned a modern quality in the classical tradition, and by incorporating this tradition into his writings he implied that there is still contemporary relevance in the classical works of the past. Classical philosophy and literature not only provided source material for his theories, but …
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Rewriting the Gospel: The Synoptics among Pluriform Literary Traditions
… procedure associated with technical literature. Independent religious experts appropriated this convention of re-writing from rival teachers as an appropriate method for demonstrating their mastery of received knowledge while, simultaneously, revising that disciplinary tradition. The …
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Gender, Power, and Persona in the Poetry of Baudri of Bourgueil
… tradition of monastic friendship letters, using classical allusion to represent an inappropriately sexualized and manipulative discourse. His letter to the nun Constance and her reply depict a struggle for control of discourse. Constance, by following Ovid’s instructions to the elegiac puella in …
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Madness and Gender in Late-Medieval English Literature
… discusses presentations of madness in medieval literature, and the ways in which these presentations are affected by (and effect) ideas of gender. It includes a discussion of madness as it is commonly presented in classical literature and medical texts, as well as an examination of demonic …
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Arnold and Pater on Wordsworth
… Classics because he, like Goethe, thought that Classical literature possessed those elements which are universally found in great literature. Arnold, then, stands in opposition to the highly subjective criticism of his own century, and is, instead a judicial critic, one who seeks an objective …
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The Value of Classical Allusions in Six of Milton’s Minor Poems (L’Allegro, Il Penseroso, Cornus, Lycldas, Samson Agonistes, and Arcades)
Classical allusions form so integral a part of Milton's poetry that one can scarcely conceive of the poems without them. Deprived of these allusions, the poetry would lose a large part of its charm; certainly it would lose its most characteristic feature. In many instances the classical allusions …
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Allegory, mimesis and the text: theological moulding of Lukan parables in Codex Bezae Cantabrigiensis
… practice of mimetic harmonisation as applied in classical literature is the context assumed in this study. Additionally, the representative mimetic view of the way in which the written text interacts with the reality of life is also considered in the light of a harmonistic approach to the …
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