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Euripides, Rhetoric, And The Sophists: Euripides’ Exhortation For Rhetoric And To Hear Each Other, Phillip Bonnes Apr 2026

Euripides, Rhetoric, And The Sophists: Euripides’ Exhortation For Rhetoric And To Hear Each Other, Phillip Bonnes

Honors Theses

From the fifth and fourth centuries B.C., professional teachers travelled throughout Greece, teaching a wide variety of subjects from music to grammar. One subject that these sophists taught earned massive notoriety for them and, consequently, their trade: rhetoric. Within Athenian democracy, this craft of speaking well to persuade others became both valuable for those who are politically active and dangerous for demagogues. Coinciding with this emerging art of rhetoric was the emergence of Athenian tragedy. These tragedies served to speak about and encourage reflection upon their own contemporary politics and culture. This paper explores how Euripides examines and encourages wariness …


John Of Garland, "Integumenta Ovidii": Text, Translation And Commentary, Kyle Gervais Oct 2022

John Of Garland, "Integumenta Ovidii": Text, Translation And Commentary, Kyle Gervais

TEAMS Secular Commentary Series

The renowned scholar-poet John of Garland wrote the Integumenta Ovidii (“Allegories on Ovid”) in early thirteenth-century Paris at a time of renewed interest in Classical Latin literature. In this short poem, John offers a series of dense, highly allusive allegories on various Greek and Roman myths in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. This important but difficult work has fascinated and challenged generations of modern students and scholars. The text is here edited and translated for the first time in 90 years, drawing on the evidence of over two dozen manuscripts. Comprehensive explanatory notes help readers to understand John’s condensed allegories in their …


The Owl And The Nightingale And The English Poems Of Jesus College Ms 29 (Ii), Susanna Fein Jan 2022

The Owl And The Nightingale And The English Poems Of Jesus College Ms 29 (Ii), Susanna Fein

TEAMS Middle English Texts

An edition of the early Middle English verse sequence contained in the thirteenth-century Oxford Jesus College MS 29 (II) with accompanying translations in Modern English and scholarly introduction and apparatus. The sequence is varied in subject, with poems of religious exhortation set beside others of secular pragmatism. Included are: The Owl and the Nightingale, Poema Morale, The Proverbs of Alfred, Thomas of Hales’s Love Rune, The Eleven Pains of Hell, the prose Shires and Hundreds of England, the lengthy Passion of Jesus Christ in English, and twenty-one additional lyrics, most of them uniquely …


Notes On Contributors, Molly Lynde-Recchia Dec 2020

Notes On Contributors, Molly Lynde-Recchia

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On Tasso In Prison By Charles Baudelaire, Sharon Fish Mooney Dec 2020

On Tasso In Prison By Charles Baudelaire, Sharon Fish Mooney

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Translation of and commentary on Baudelaire's "On Tasso in Prison," which is an ekphrastic poem after Delacroix's painting of the same name.


Four Poems By Toshiko Hirata, Eric Hyett, Spencer Thurlow Dec 2020

Four Poems By Toshiko Hirata, Eric Hyett, Spencer Thurlow

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Translations of "Is It February?" "Is It March?" "Is It November Again?" and "Is It December Again?"


Lullaby By Rainer Maria Rilke And Amen By Georg Trakl, Wally Swist Dec 2020

Lullaby By Rainer Maria Rilke And Amen By Georg Trakl, Wally Swist

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Drops From Black Candles By Abdallah Zrika, Mike Baynham Dec 2020

Drops From Black Candles By Abdallah Zrika, Mike Baynham

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English translation of Abdallah Zrika's "Drops from black candles" accompanied by an essay on the translation process which includes consideration of Laâbi's French translation of the same poem.


While Dreaming, While Writing (Excerpt) By Max Alhau, Patrick Williamson Dec 2020

While Dreaming, While Writing (Excerpt) By Max Alhau, Patrick Williamson

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A free rendering of Max Alhau's "While dreaming, while writing," with commentary. The original source text is included.


Corona By Paul Celan, David Capps Dec 2020

Corona By Paul Celan, David Capps

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Five Poems By Michael Krüger, Louise Stoehr Dec 2020

Five Poems By Michael Krüger, Louise Stoehr

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Two Poems By Charles Baudelaire, Arnold Johnston Dec 2020

Two Poems By Charles Baudelaire, Arnold Johnston

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Arnold Johnston's translations of Baudelaire's "The Lovely Ship" and "Invitation to the Voyage."


Two Poems By Nohad Salameh, Susanna Lang Dec 2020

Two Poems By Nohad Salameh, Susanna Lang

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Susanna Lang's translations of Nohad Salameh's "I Greet You, My Twin" and "Dance of the One/the Moon."


Four Sonnets By Feng Zhi, Emily Goedde Dec 2020

Four Sonnets By Feng Zhi, Emily Goedde

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Translation of Feng Zhi's Sonnets 6, 12, 16, and 18 by Emily Goedde.


Six Poems By Safiye Can, Marilya V. Reese Dec 2020

Six Poems By Safiye Can, Marilya V. Reese

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Translations into English of six pieces of poetry by Safiye Can, Circassian-German poet from Offenbach.

P.E.N member Safiye Can pronounced like John), award-winning and best-selling Circassian poet from Offenbach, is a German citizen. Can studied philosophy, psychoanalysis and law at the Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main and is the recent recipient of two prestigious literary prizes (Else Lasker-Schüler Poetry prize and Alfred-Müller-Felsenburg Prize for Civil Courage in Literature). Can’s work examining the place of the individual in society reframes concepts of home and belonging. Safiye Can was featured at the 20th annual, week-long Leselenz, Germany’s largest non-urban literary …


Persistence Of Memory After A Poem By Bashō, John Savoie Dec 2020

Persistence Of Memory After A Poem By Bashō, John Savoie

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This piece merges a classic haiku of Bashō with a contemporary English poem, first as its own new creative piece, then contemplated further in the commentary.


Four Poems By Rainer Maria Rilke, Susan Mclean Dec 2020

Four Poems By Rainer Maria Rilke, Susan Mclean

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Translations of four German poems from New Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926): "The Blind Man," "The Donor," "The Arrival," and "Lady on a Balcony."


From The Villa By Lucretius, James E. Fowler Dec 2020

From The Villa By Lucretius, James E. Fowler

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"From the Villa" is an epistolary poem in hexameters whose argument is loosely based on the Lucretius's De Rerum Natura. It is addressed to Lucretius's putative dedicatee/patron Gaius Memmius, a contemporary politician and poet.


My Dear Double By Abdellatif Laâbi, Guillemette C. Johnston, Allan Johnston Dec 2020

My Dear Double By Abdellatif Laâbi, Guillemette C. Johnston, Allan Johnston

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This translation of Abdellatif Laabi's poem "My Dear Double" is accompanied by an essay on the theme of the double in literature.


Foreword, Molly Lynde-Recchia Dec 2020

Foreword, Molly Lynde-Recchia

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Transference Vol. 8, Fall 2020, Molly Lynde-Recchia Dec 2020

Transference Vol. 8, Fall 2020, Molly Lynde-Recchia

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A Primer For Beginning Russian, Dasha Culic Nisula Jan 2020

A Primer For Beginning Russian, Dasha Culic Nisula

Books Written by World Languages and Literatures Faculty

A two week introductory course to the teaching of Russian featuring lessons, exercises, and supplements.


Notes On Contributors, Molly Lynde-Recchia Dec 2019

Notes On Contributors, Molly Lynde-Recchia

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A Selection From The Chieko Poems By Takamura Kōtarō, Leanne Ogasawara Dec 2019

A Selection From The Chieko Poems By Takamura Kōtarō, Leanne Ogasawara

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Four Poems From House Of Razor Blades By Linda Maria Baros, Kathryn Kimball Dec 2019

Four Poems From House Of Razor Blades By Linda Maria Baros, Kathryn Kimball

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Four Poems By Yao Nai, Andrew Gudgel Dec 2019

Four Poems By Yao Nai, Andrew Gudgel

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Four Poems By Dieurat Clervoyant, Elizabeth Dodd Dec 2019

Four Poems By Dieurat Clervoyant, Elizabeth Dodd

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Poems by Haitian poet in exile Dieurat Clervoyant, translated from the French by Elizabeth Dodd.


An Axe Falling On A Blind Statue By Mohamed Fouad, Nina Youkhanna Dec 2019

An Axe Falling On A Blind Statue By Mohamed Fouad, Nina Youkhanna

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Three Poems From Flowing Toward Serenity By Tan Xiao, Xinlu Yan Dec 2019

Three Poems From Flowing Toward Serenity By Tan Xiao, Xinlu Yan

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Tan Xiao is a Chinese poet whose poetry examines the relationships between an individual and his or her family, traditions, and society as a whole. The language he uses is deceptively simple, but the poignant observations and insights ensure that his poetry is relevant and relatable. This article includes three poems by Tan and accompanying commentary.


Five Poems From Born Into By Uwe Kolbe, Louise Stoehr Dec 2019

Five Poems From Born Into By Uwe Kolbe, Louise Stoehr

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Uwe Kolbe is one of the major German poets of his generation. Both part of the dissident scene in East Germany and, at the same time, fiercely independent, he early on reworked literary tradition, detailed observation, and personal experience into poems that clearly express his own poetic vision in a distinct voice. Born October 17, 1957, in East Berlin, Kolbe was drawn to writing at a young age. He published his first volume of poetry, Hineingeboren (Born Into), in the former German Democratic Republic in 1980 and in 1982 in West Germany. “Hineingeboren” has become Kolbe’s signature poem …