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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Epigram"”.
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Poetry in public: reperformance and publication of archaic Greek epigram
This dissertation examines Archaic Greek epigram in its context (cultural, historical, physical, etc.), with particular focus on its ancient reading and reception. My study contributes to our understanding of the performance culture of Archaic Greece, whereby, scholars have argued, poems and their …
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LA GENESI DELL¿EPIGRAMMA ITALIANO: PROPOSTE TEORICHE, MODELLI, SPERIMENTAZIONI LETTERARIE, SOLUZIONI EDITORIALI
… thesis explores the origins of the Italian epigram, focusing on its development in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries through both theoretical frameworks and compositional practices. It begins with a comparative analysis of key theoretical texts, including those by Robortello, …
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The Collective Moment: Reading Time in the Greek Anthology
… temporal perspectives of their constituent epigrams offers a complex source for literary-historical thinking in antiquity. This project examines the temporality of Greek epigram and the experience of reading diachronic difference in the Greek anthological tradition to argue for the …
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Looking with Narcissus: Oscar Wilde’s Reception of the Dying God
… thesis relates the classically educated Wilde’s epigram, which supposedly originated with his Trinity College Dublin tutor, John Pentland Mahaffy, to the dissolution of authority both inside and outside Classics during the second half of the nineteenth century. Chapter 1 explores the broadly …
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Gender, text, and the body in Martial’s Epigrams
… many parts. This dissertation explores Martial’s Epigrams to ask how the poet presents his own work as a whole, gendered entity within its generic context. This dissertation undertakes a close textual analysis of epigrams that prominently feature body imagery for the text and textual imagery …
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Eighteenth-century Latin Occasional Literature of Lithuania from the Point of View of Literary Genetics /
… the peculiarities of the panegyric, the ode, the epigram and the epithalamium, as well as those of the genres representing funeral literature – the threnody, the epicedium, the epitaph, and the elegy. The main research is covered in the second part of the body of the thesis, which deals with the …
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The poetics of mid-Victorian scientific materialism in the writings of John Tyndall, W.K. Clifford and others
… illustrated with quotations from Whitman or an epigram from ‘Tintern Abbey’. My 1st chapter provides a broader context for those that follow, analysing both changing nineteenth-century ideas of materialism and also a range of potential reactions to -– and inter alia a variety of the contrasting …
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Female characterisation in the epic poetry of P. Papinius Statius
… progress." (Tanner, R G 1986. Epic Tradition and Epigram in Statius ANRW II 32.5, 3020) Publius Papinius Statius (c.AD 40-96) is best known for his occasional poetry, the Silvae, which is in scholarly vogue at present. He also composed a monumental twelve-book epic, little known until this …
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Barely Hidden Magic: Acadiana Stories
… like giving a secret away. As suggested in the epigram, the stories reveal the kinds of observations that are available to anyone who wishes to mindfully observe the world in which they live and the people who are in it, but for that reason, they are often never noticed at all. The seven stories …
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In Search of Present Time: Reading Carpe Diem
… last king of Assyria, Sardanapallus, and an epigrammatic tradition that can be linked to this epitaph. Two further chapters analyse carpe diem in Horace’s poetry. I investigate how Horace’s carpe diem poems evoke present enjoyment in ways that differ from early Greek lyric. Horace achieves …
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GLI EPIGRAMMI 'DI PLATONE'. EDIZIONE, COMMENTO, FORTUNA
… new critical edition and full commentary of the epigrams transmitted under Plato's name. The edition includes for the first time all the epigrams assigned to 'Plato' by the ancient tradition and offers a critical text based on a review of the manuscript tradition and philological work. The …