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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Tristia"”.
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Reconstructing Home in Exile: Ovid's Tristia
… My case-studies will be poems from Ovid's Tristia in which he either directly reconstructs home or provides a photographic negative image of home by highlighting the opposite: the barbaric. I will spend the first chapter examining Ovid's construction of home's physical landscape. In Tristia …
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Renaissance Receptions of Ovid's <i>Tristia</i>
… two facets of the reception of Ovid’s <i>Tristia</i> in the 16th century: its commentary tradition and its adaptation by Latin poets. It lays the groundwork for a more comprehensive study of the Renaissance reception of the <i>Tristia</i> by providing a scholarly platform where there was …
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Die ironie in enkele gedigte in Tristia van N P van Wyk Louw
… attribute inherent in poems which appear in Tristia by N P van Wyk Louw. The thesis can be divided into two sections: the first is an attempt at describing and defining philosophical irony; while the second serves as an introduction to the method (principally Literary Semantic) applied in the …
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Die rol van nostalgie binne die konsep van ontluistering in die werk van N.P. van Wyk Louw
… Wyk Louw concentrates mostly on Nuwe Verse and Tristia and especially on the type of language used in "Klipwerk" and the fact that the author resided in the Netherlands while writing these two books. To outline the developement of nostalgic tendencies, the theme-poem of every book was looked at …
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Environmental Change in Ovid's Poetry
… the "Metamorphoses", the "Fasti", and the "Tristia". The first chapter argues that the "Medicamina Faciei Femineae" and the "Ars Amatoria" use detailed attention to the technical procedure of cosmetics, as well as associated processes of resource extraction, to blur the distinction between …
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Pregnancy and Childbirth in the Poetry of Ovid
… procreativity. I focus particularly on the Tristia, examining how Ovid uses parenthood metaphors to describe his own artistic labour and suggesting that the exiled Ovid identifies with maternal suffering as he ‘births’ his poems, constructing a poetic persona that is simultaneously masculine …
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<i>Vim Parat</i>: Patterns of Sexualized Violence, Victim-Blaming, and Sororophobia in Ovid
<p>My dissertation argues for the importance of understanding the depiction of sexualized violence and rape in the Roman poet Ovid’s extensive corpus through the modern feminist concepts of victim-blaming (blaming victims of sexual abuse for their own abuse) and sororophobia (female figures …