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Trans Metamorphoses: Gender, Race, and Classical Receptions
"Trans Metamorphoses" returns us to the archaic figures that express gender variance in late medieval and early modern literature: the monstrous birth, the virgin, the hermaphrodite, and the angel. Drawing together trans theory, premodern critical race studies, and classical reception history, I …
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The Poetics of Geography in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
… the physical world—plays a major role in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, a poem as expansive in space as it is in time. Geographical themes extend throughout the poem, which begins with cosmogony and ends with poetic immortality underpinned by the spaces of the Roman empire. In Ovid’s verses we find …
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Grammatical Gender and Transformation in Ovid's "Metamorphoses"
Ovid’s Metamorphoses offers a meandering sequence of mythological transformations with no formal scheme – or so scholars have long thought. This thesis wagers that the poem does offer a scheme for understanding the world, which lies in the relationship between the biological sex and social gender …
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AUGUSTAN TRIUMPHS: DISHONORABLE LAURELS IN OVIDS AMORES AND METAMORPHOSES
… of these same critiques expressed in the Metamorphoses, where Ovid's disapproval becomes more explicit. This project demonstrates how Ovid manipulates Augustan iconography in order to present the achievements of Augustus as dishonorable.
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Nature Art : Ovid's poetics of creation in the metamorphoses
The writing of a thesis, like any extended adventure, is a mix of excited discovery and rediscovery with occasional disappointment and misgiving (one is seldom either as original or as precise as one had hoped to be). As I approached the final stages of this small hommage to a favourite poet, I …
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Divine Poetics: Representation of Genre in Ovid's Metamorphoses 6.70-128
… the two traditions by interweaving them into the Metamorphoses.
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Lucretian stillness and motion as political metaphors in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
… contrast between stillness and motion in Ovid’s Metamorphoses as well as its connection to two other polarities in the poem: silence–sound and stagnation–fluidity. I argue that Ovid treats these three polarities as analogous and gives them political meaning, with stillness representing political …
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Sequence of Thought and Motivation in the 'Metamorphoses' of Apuleius
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<i>Pavore Risum</i>: Humor and Horror in Apuleius’ <i>Metamorphoses<i>
… between humor and horror in Apuleius’ <em>Metamorphoses</em>. By analyzing episodes of supernatural horror over the course of the text, I establish a repeated pattern of confusion between magical and mundane storyworlds in each of these episodes, where the protagonist misunderstands the …
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The seasons of Zarathustra and their correspondence to the metamorphoses of the spirit
… This thesis explores the connection between the metamorphoses of the spirit and the seasons in Thus'Spoke Zarathustra, with the camel spirit corresponding to autumn, the lion spirit with winter, the child spirit with spring, and finally the Overman with summer. Although the Overman is not …
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Metamorphoses of a Genre: British and Italian Sound Docudrama in Context and Contemporary Production
Situated at the crossroads of fact and invention, docudrama constitutes a challenging field of investigation for Media Studies. Its hybrid nature produces resonances in terms of knowledge and perception of reality that make it infinitely enriching both for creativity and for thought. Nevertheless, …
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Reverence and Heresy: The Illustrations of Printed Editions of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Cinquecento Venice
… During this epoch of tumultuous change, Ovid’s Metamorphoses gripped the imagination of many, becoming one of the most influential texts of the period. In this thesis, I set out to question how the illustrations of vernacular printed editions of Metamorphoses changed throughout the course of the …
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Reverence and Heresy: The Illustrations of Printed Editions of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Cinquecento Venice
… During this epoch of tumultuous change, Ovid’s Metamorphoses gripped the imagination of many, becoming one of the most influential texts of the period. In this thesis, I set out to question how the illustrations of vernacular printed editions of Metamorphoses changed throughout the course of the …
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Metamorphoses After Oboe: An Examination of the Evolution of Oboe Part Writing Through Music History
<p>Throughout Western music history, the oboe has served as one of the primary members of the orchestra. From its beginnings in the Baroque consort to the modern day orchestra, the instrument's story is one of unique ups and downs between being a staple and being a necessity. Though the instrument …
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In a Garden of Lions: a Creative Rendering Inspired by the Three Metamorphoses of Friedrich Nietzsche
<p>A decade ago, during the summer of 2002, I read Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra. It made an indelible mark: even the colors and smells of that roof-top porch in Toronto where I read it all the way through still arise in the forefront of my mind every time I think of this text. Since …
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Profit, Poetry, and Politics in Augustan Translation: A Study of the Tonson-Garth 'Metamorphoses' of 1717
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Metamorphoses of the Butterfly in Classical Antiquity: From the Female Body to the Soul of the Dead
… The scope of this project is to investigate the metamorphoses that the symbol of the butterfly underwent in classical antiquity, and how, from being associated with female eroticism, it moved to symbolising the soul of the dead. My work starts in Chapter One with an analysis of the terminology …
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