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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Epitaph"”.
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Glorified Daughters: The Glorification of Daughters on Roman Epitaphs
… the months or days she lived as inscribed on her epitaph.
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The Last Days of the German Imperial High Seas Fleet
… all that I can do for the fleet is to write its epitaph." | With these words Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, the creator of the German High Seas Fleet, concluded his memoirs. At the beginning of World War I, Tirpitz expected the German Navy to break the back of British sea power, but this dream …
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In Search of Present Time: Reading Carpe Diem
… origins of the motif. My focus is the hedonistic epitaph of the legendary 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 …
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Who Died: Redefining the Elegy Through Affect and Trauma
… that death literature, specifically elegies and epitaphs, do not rely on set structure or content, but rather are poetic effects of trauma and affect. Both have been defined and redefined by critical scholars, but there is still a division about their use. The beginning of the project will pull …
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Protection Epitaphs: Material Connection Between Death and Magic in Ancient Rome
… and preserving the identity of the deceased. Epitaphs, a physical object created to mark the tomb, are seen in antiquity and modern cultures. Protection epitaphs, a subset of these epitaphs, are a subculture within ancient Rome that incorporate a request for protection. These epitaphs share a …
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Restructuring public higher education governance in West Virginia, 1969-1989: a policy study
… bequests of the Board were profiled. A political epitaph for the Regents included the following inscriptions. The governance structure of higher education in the great state of West Virginia is what the governor, the legislature, the campus presidents, and their creation(s), the board(s), perceive …
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“das ungewisse”: the Uncertain Time of Paul Celan’s “Grabschrift für François”
… study of the poem “Grabschrift für François” [Epitaph for François], written by the Holocaust survivor and mid-20th-century German-language poet, Paul Celan. Celan’s poetry is regarded in the scholarship as a site of mourning for the brutalities of the Holocaust, including the murders of his …
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Teaching itself: a mythology of learning in theory and practice
… subject’ turned out almost to be the subject’s epitaph as its survival at A level turned out to be a close run thing. I hope in passing to consider the impact of this context but also to argue that the context of writing this commentary, at the time of a global pandemic, has probably added more …
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Eighteenth-century Latin Occasional Literature of Lithuania from the Point of View of Literary Genetics /
… 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 discussion of eighteenth-century Latin occasional literature. This part consists of six chapters which, apart from the genres of …
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Pitch organisation in the music of Witold Lutoslawski since 1979
… refined. The following works are represented: Epitaph (1979); Double Concerto (1979-80); Grave (1981); Symphony no.3 (1981-83); Chain 1 (1983); Partita (1984); Chain 2 (1985); Chain 3 (1986); Piano Concerto (1987-88); Interlude (1989); Chantefleurs et Chantefables (1989-90).
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The Spirit of Exemplarity: The Role of Example in Lyric Studies
… chapter turns to individual lyric poems (a Greek epitaph, a medieval lyric, and a Wordsworth poem), seeking to enact the kind of critical work for which the thesis has argued, while continuing its project of expanding the range of examples typically considered in attempts to create models of …
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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 …