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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"epitaphs"”.
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Glorified Daughters: The Glorification of Daughters on Roman Epitaphs
This thesis looks at over 3,000 inscriptions of unmarried daughters, under the age of 20, during the Roman Empire. It discusses the formulaic ways in which daughters were described on their tombstones based on their age and the Roman virtues valued at the time. It primarily focuses on descriptors, …
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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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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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Building An Identity : Two Noblewomen In England 1566-1666
… of funeral monuments, whose forms and epitaphs went beyond remembering the worthy dead with a memorial, to a quite specific view of the deceased, which served these patrons' purposes of promoting their own identities in eternal stone in the public spaces of churches. The patronage of …
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Distanz, Nähe, Gewalt : soziale Interaktion in den Romanen von Horacio Castellanos Moya
… sich hierbei einerseits der Begriff des „Epitaphs“, wie ihn Jacques Derrida in seiner Politiques de l’ amitié entwickelt und andererseits die „Theorie des kommunikativen Rabens“, welche Ottmar Ette in seinem Band ÜberLebenswissen: die Aufgabe der Philologie darstellt. Die Arbeit hofft …
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The role of memory in the poetry of Douglas Dunn and Tony Harrison with specific reference to elegy.
… Making detailed use of Wordsworth's 'Essays upon Epitaphs' and Gray's 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard', Chapter 1 argues that Harrison reviews a poetics of epitaphs in V.. In Chapters 4 and 6 it is argued that the figures, structures and motifs of elegy fragmentarily echoed in Dunn's poetry …
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The Politics of Anti -Courtly Love Poetry: Gender, Sexuality, and Religion in Early Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Verse Miscellanies
… poems on affairs of state, or libels, include: epitaphs for Elizabeth; attacks on the earl and countess of Somerset, the Jacobean royal favorite and noble Catholic woman who were found guilty of murdering Sir Thomas Overbury; poems opposing the proposed marriage between Prince Charles and the …
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Women, Femininity, and Love in the Writings of Bo Juyi (772-846)
… court memorials, examination essays, epitaphs, letters, poems and compilations. Six areas will be focused on: First, Bo Juyi's life is/examined to ascertain how his world view was shaped by the Tang cultural framework, and to what extent his experience and writings reflected Tang …
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The serious art of funny business: a critical study of comedy in dance
… The works examined include: Paul Taylor's Three Epitaphs (1956), David Parsons' The Envelope (1986), Mark Morris' the Merlitone dance from the Hard Nut (1991), with a developed analysis of the seminal comedic ballet La Fille Mal Gardee. Choreographed originally by Jean Dauberval (1789), the …
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Death, writing, and remembrance in Anglo-Saxon England
The Anglo-Saxon conversion to Christianity was as much a revolution in literacy as it was in religion. I argue that within this new textual culture, the Anglo-Saxons exploited writing’s aura of permanence to counter the social, spiritual, and physical oblivion of death. By using writing both to …