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Psychological Vocabulary in Roman Poetry
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Die Wandlungen Des Frauenbildes in Der Lyrik Heinrich Heines. (German Text)
This study intends to show how Heine tries in his poetry to destroy the medieval, petrarchan and romantic spiritual love concept, with its idealized view of women--apart from his frequent use of irony and parody--by opposing it with the erotic love concept of Greek and Roman poetry and that of the …
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"Love is Eloquence": Richard Crashaw and the Development of a Discourse of Divine Love
My thesis takes as its subject the poetry of Richard Crashaw. Crashaw aims to represent a mutual relationship of love between God and humanity, which is modelled on the discourses of earthly, erotic love. However, such a relationship, and its expression is highly problematic. Love, and this kind of …
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"Love is Eloquence": Richard Crashaw and the Development of a Discourse of Divine Love
My thesis takes as its subject the poetry of Richard Crashaw. Crashaw aims to represent a mutual relationship of love between God and humanity, which is modelled on the discourses of earthly, erotic love. However, such a relationship, and its expression is highly problematic. Love, and this kind of …
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A study of Greek and Roman mythology in the poetry of today.
… term paper prepared for English 250, Present Day Poetry, taught by Dr. A. J. Armstrong in the summer of 1940. A brief study of Greek and Roman mythology in modern poetry was made by examining the anthology, The New Poetry, edited by Harriet Monroe and Alice Corbin Henderson. Although some facts …
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Poetic genetics : family, sexual reproduction, and community in Lucretius' De rerum natura
… in Lucretius’ formulation of Epicureanism for a Roman audience. I argue that Lucretius modifies Epicurus’ teachings about family and sex to render Epicureanism more palatable to a Roman audience. I explore the cultural resonance of the social metaphors Lucretius uses to explain atomic movement, …
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Gender, text, and the body in Martial’s Epigrams
The expression “body of work” has long been used to describe the creative output of an author or artist, and the Latin word corpus is traditionally used to signify the bulk of a textual work because it represents a whole being made of many parts. This dissertation explores Martial’s Epigrams to ask …
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Early Greek Indexicality: Markers of Allusion in Archaic Greek Poetry
… In recent years, scholars have explored how Roman poets signposted references to their predecessors through a range of relational metaphors, representing their allusions as acts of recollection, echo and theft. Yet although these readings have proved a popular and rewarding interpretative …