Standing And The Ninth Floor Again: The Military Hospital By Sghaier Ouled Ahmed, 2017 University of Tunis, Tunis
Standing And The Ninth Floor Again: The Military Hospital By Sghaier Ouled Ahmed, Hager Ben Driss
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Translated from Arabic by Hager Ben Driss
Excerpts From And Here's The Song By Hélène Sanguinetti, 2017 Sarah Lawrence College
Excerpts From And Here's The Song By Hélène Sanguinetti, Ann Cefola
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Translated from French by Ann Cefola
Woe To Those... By Jakob Van Hoddis And Mystery And Crime And Elderly Couple By Yaak Karsunke, 2017 Saint Louis University
Woe To Those... By Jakob Van Hoddis And Mystery And Crime And Elderly Couple By Yaak Karsunke, Gregory Divers
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Translated from German by Gregory Divers
Four Love Poems From One Hundred Poems Of The Dharma Gate By Jakuzen, 2017 University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Four Love Poems From One Hundred Poems Of The Dharma Gate By Jakuzen, Stephen D. Miller, Patrick Donnelly
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Translated from Japanese and Chinese by Stephen D. Miller and Patrick Donnelly
Four Poems From Sonnets Pour Hélène By Pierre De Ronsard, 2017 Sarah Lawrence College
Four Poems From Sonnets Pour Hélène By Pierre De Ronsard, Ann Lauinger
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Translated from French by Ann Lauinger.
Excerpts From The Clutter Of Words By Suzanne Alaywan, 2017 University of Toronto
Excerpts From The Clutter Of Words By Suzanne Alaywan, Nina Youkhanna
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Translated from Arabic by Nina Youkhanna
Foreword, 2017 Western Michigan University
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Theaters Of Voice, Body, And Page: Beckett, Sophocles, Homer, Joyce, 2017 University of Massachusetts Amherst
Theaters Of Voice, Body, And Page: Beckett, Sophocles, Homer, Joyce, Barry A. Spence
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation makes a comparative study of Homeric Greek, Classical Greek, Modernist, and late modern works of storytelling with particular attention to strategies and techniques that achieve an exceptional degree of performative immediacy. As such, theater (the dramatic mode) forms a central concern, viewed as the fulfillment of direct performative embodiment—building on Aristotle’s idea of mimesis. An analysis examining multiple media demonstrates how oral epic poetry, Athenian tragedy, modern theater, the short story, and the novel can make use of seemingly disparate storytelling methods that share underlying mechanisms whose effects are decidedly theatrical. Four authors—Sophocles, Samuel Beckett, Homer, and …
Vim Parat: Patterns Of Sexualized Violence, Victim-Blaming, And Sororophobia In Ovid, 2017 The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Vim Parat: Patterns Of Sexualized Violence, Victim-Blaming, And Sororophobia In Ovid, Melissa Marturano
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
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 participating in misogyny). It explores sexualized violence and rape in Ovid long-form, examines the discernible patterns that emerge and the deviations from them as he depicts that violence throughout his texts, and more importantly, introduces victim-blaming and sororophobia into an analysis of these patterns. Despite the fact that previous scholars have done substantial analyses of the patterns of …
The Solid & The Shifting: Darwinian Time, Evolutionary Form And The Greek Ideal In The Early Works Of Virginia Woolf, 2017 Washington University in St. Louis
The Solid & The Shifting: Darwinian Time, Evolutionary Form And The Greek Ideal In The Early Works Of Virginia Woolf, Joseph Monroe Kreutziger
Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations
ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION
“The Solid & the Shifting”: Evolutionary Form, Darwinian Time, and the Greek Ideal in the Early Works of Virginia Woolf
By
Joseph Kreutziger
Doctor of Philosophy in English and American Literature
Washington University in St. Louis, 2017
Professors Melanie Micir, Robert Milder, Steven Meyer, Vincent Sherry, Zoe Stamatopoulou
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“Now is life very solid or very shifting?” Virginia Woolf asks in her diary of 1931, a question she claims haunts her in its contradictions. This dynamism between the solid and the shifting aspects of life and temporality is fundamental to an analysis of Woolf’s writing process. …
Textile Terminologies From The Orient To The Mediterranean And Europe, 1000 Bc To 1000 Ad, 2017 University of Copenhagen
Textile Terminologies From The Orient To The Mediterranean And Europe, 1000 Bc To 1000 Ad, Salvatore Gaspa, Cécile Michel, Marie-Louise Nosch
Zea E-Books Collection
The papers in this volume derive from the conference on textile terminology held in June 2014 at the University of Copenhagen. Around 50 experts from the fields of Ancient History, Indo-European Studies, Semitic Philology, Assyriology, Classical Archaeology, and Terminology from twelve different countries came together at the Centre for Textile Research, to discuss textile terminology, semantic fields of clothing and technology, loan words, and developments of textile terms in Antiquity. They exchanged ideas, research results, and presented various views and methods.
This volume contains 35 chapters, divided into five sections: • Textile terminologies across the ancient Near East and the …
Dante And The “Dead White Dude” Dilemma: Exploring The Complexities Of Diversity And Controversy In Medieval Literature, 2017 Western Kentucky University
Dante And The “Dead White Dude” Dilemma: Exploring The Complexities Of Diversity And Controversy In Medieval Literature, Grace Therrell
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
Recently, one of the goals on the English discipline has been diversification. Students and scholars alike call for program requirements that are inclusive instead of imperialistic. They want to read texts written by non-white, non-male authors and to hear voices that are less represented in literature. In short, they want to eliminate the focus on literature written by the “dead white dude.” While literature programs should be more diversified, it is still possible to hear from marginalized voices and discuss current controversial issues through older canonical texts. Dante Alighieri does this exceptionally well in his Divine Comedy as he tends …
Recognizing Freedom: Manumission In The Roman Republic, 2017 The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Recognizing Freedom: Manumission In The Roman Republic, Tristan Husby
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Roman manumission was at the center of three different groups: the Roman state, Roman slave-owners, and freeborn Romans who did not own slaves. I draw upon G.F.W. Hegel, Orlando Patterson, Judith Butler, and Pierre Bourdieu to describe Roman manumission as a ritualized practice that transforms a slave’s life from unlivable to livable. The term “unlivable” comes from the philosopher Judith Butler, who developed it in conversation with Hegel’s master/slave dialectic and the term “social death,” which sociologist Orlando Patterson used to describe slavery. Hegel and Patterson’s thoughts on the movement and experience of freedom are useful for theorizing Roman slavery …
Aeschylean Drama And The History Of Rhetoric, 2017 The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Aeschylean Drama And The History Of Rhetoric, Allannah K. Karas
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This dissertation demonstrates how the playwright Aeschylus contributes to the development of ancient Greek rhetoric through his use and display of πειθώ (often translated “persuasion”) throughout the Oresteia, first performed in 458 BCE. In this drama, Aeschylus specifically displays and develops πειθώ as a theme, a goddess, a central principle of action, and an important concept for his audience to consider. By tracing connections between Aeschylus’ innovations with πειθώ and later fifth and early fourth century conceptions of Greek rhetoric, I argue that Aeschylus plays a more important role in the development of practical principles and concepts of the …
Review Of The Gift Of Active Empathy: Scheler, Bakhtin, And Dostoevsky, By Alina Wyman, 2017 Marshall University
Review Of The Gift Of Active Empathy: Scheler, Bakhtin, And Dostoevsky, By Alina Wyman, Slav N. Gratchev
Dr. Slav N. Gratchev
There are certain writers that literary scholars of all times will study again and again, and there are certain literary works that are too important to be examined only once. Reading Dostoevsky is always an “excruciatingly visceral experience” not only for us, the readers, but also for scholars like Max Scheler and Mikhail Bakhtin (p. 230). Alina Wyman’s book makes a major contribution to this experience. Wyman’s argument is both original and elegantly simple: for Bakhtin and Scheler the concept of loving empathy is fundamental in both their respective models of being and in the particular structure of their careers. …
Sophrosyne In Aeschylus, 2017 Washington University in St. Louis
Sophrosyne In Aeschylus, Konstantinos Karathanasis
Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This is a study on the semantics of sophrosyne, and the importance of this culturally significant term for the political vocabulary of Aeschylus. The author argues that the core of the semantics of sophrosyne is the status-based behavioral propriety within a hierarchy. By examining all the occurrences of the term’s cognates in the Aeschylean corpus, the author concludes that Aeschylus used sophrosyne as a tool in a pro-democratic rhetoric. Given that the deviance from status-based propriety in Aeschylean tragedy results in socio-political catastrophes, the monarchic societies of Greek myth and Persia are presented as political environments that endanger sophrosyne …
Roman Propaganda In The Age Of Augustus, 2017 Dominican University of California
Roman Propaganda In The Age Of Augustus, Alex Pollok
Senior Theses
This paper is an examination of the methods and utilizations of propaganda in the Late Republic/Early Imperial period of Ancient Rome. The focus is on the propaganda of Augustus Caesar whose rulership ushered in the era referred to as the Pax Romana or Roman Peace. Augustus created a mythical image of himself that served as inspiration for future emperors. This image and its influence on future Romans is also examined. Today, we have film and/or television acting as the primary focal point for propaganda. In ancient Rome, the primary methods were literature, statues, monuments, and coins (though these are still …
Dreams, Visions, And Their Interpretation In Lucan’S Pharsalia, 2017 Washington University in St. Louis
Dreams, Visions, And Their Interpretation In Lucan’S Pharsalia, David Harris
Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This thesis is an analysis of the dreams in Lucan's poem Pharsalia (De Bello Civili; Bellum Civile) at the intersection of epic and historiography. I focus primarily on the dream and vision scenes of the two main characters, Caesar and Pompey: Caesar’s vision of Roma (1.183–227), Pompey’s dream of Julia (3.1–45), Pompey’s dream of his theater before the battle of Pharsalus (7.7–27), and Caesar’s dream of dead spirits after the battle (7.771–96). I take as background the epic and philosophical frameworks by which dreams were understood in antiquity. I conclude that a characteristic feature of Lucan's epic …
Virgil's Aeneid: Subversive Interpretation In The Commissioned Epic, 2017 Northern Michigan University
Virgil's Aeneid: Subversive Interpretation In The Commissioned Epic, Nicole Moore
Conspectus Borealis
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