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Rojcewicz, Stephen J. "Our tears| Thornton Wilder's reception and Americanization of the Latin and Greek classics." Thesis, University of Maryland, College Park, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10260313.
Full textI argue in this dissertation that Thornton Wilder is a poeta doctus, a learned playwright and novelist, who consciously places himself within the classical tradition, creating works that assimilate Greek and Latin literature, transforming our understanding of the classics through the intertextual aspects of his writings. Never slavishly following his ancient models, Wilder grapples with classical literature not only through his fiction set in ancient times but also throughout his literary output, integrating classical influences with biblical, medieval, Renaissance, early modern, and modern sources. In particular, Wilder dramatizes the Americanization of these influences, fulfilling what he describes in an early newspaper interview as the mission of the American writer: merging classical works with the American spirit.
Through close reading; examination of manuscript drafts, journal entries, and correspondence; and philological analysis, I explore Wilder’s development of classical motifs, including the female sage, the torch race of literature, the Homeric hero, and the spread of manure. Wilder’s first published novel, The Cabala, demonstrates his identification with Vergil as the Latin poet’s American successor. Drawing on feminist scholarship, I investigate the role of female sages in Wilder’s novels and plays, including the example of Emily Dickinson. The Skin of Our Teeth exemplifies Wilder’s metaphor of literature as a “Torch Race,” based on Lucretius and Plato: literature is a relay race involving the cooperation of numerous peoples and cultures, rather than a purely competitive endeavor.
Vergil’s expression, sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt [Here are the tears of the world, and human matters touch the heart] (Vergil: Aeneid 1.462), haunts much of Wilder’s oeuvre. The phrase lacrimae rerum is multivocal, so that the reader must interpret it. Understanding lacrimae rerum as “tears for the beauty of the world,” Wilder utilizes scenes depicting the wonder of the world and the resulting sorrow when individuals recognize this too late. Saturating his works with the spirit of antiquity, Wilder exhorts us to observe lovingly and to live life fully while on earth. Through characters such as Dolly Levi in The Matchmaker and Emily Webb in Our Town, Wilder transforms Vergil’s lacrimae rerum into “Our Tears.”
Mehta, Arti. "How do fables teach? reading the world of the fable in Greek, Latin and Sanskrit narratives /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3297125.
Full textTitle from dissertation home page (viewed Sept. 25, 2008). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-02, Section: A, page: 0602. Adviser: Eleanor W. Leach.
Werner, Erika Pereira Nunes. "Lá vem a noiva: o epithalamium suas configurações do período helenístico à era flaviana." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8143/tde-25072011-135922/.
Full textThis doctoral thesis is a study about the poetical genre known as epithalamium and its occurrence among the transmitted poetical compositions located between the beginning of the Hellenistic period and the end of the classical antiquity. Greek and Latin poetical compositions are analysed in order to identify the main characteristics that are supposed to be associated to that genre during that time
Fisher, Elizabeth A. "Planudes' Greek translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses." New York : Garland Pub, 1990. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/21077839.html.
Full textCurtis, Lauren. "On with the Dance! Imagining the Chorus in Augustan Poetry." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10991.
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Meister, Felix Johannes. "Momentary immortality : Greek praise poetry and the rhetoric of the extraordinary." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2a2e9801-b29e-485f-bb1d-2eda190de8e1.
Full textPark, E. C. "Plato and Lucretius as philosophical literature : a comparative study." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:97c3ba13-d229-429d-83fc-138fcbaf58b1.
Full textNeil, Bronwen, and res cand@acu edu au. "A Critical Edition of Anastasius Bibliothecarius' Latin Translation of Greek Documents Pertaining to the Life of Maximus the Confessor, with an Analysis of Anastasius' Translation Methodology, and an English Translation of the Latin Text." Australian Catholic University. Sub-Faculty of Theology, 1998. http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/digitaltheses/public/adt-acuvp231.30042010.
Full textPlatt, Mary Hartley. "Epic reduction : receptions of Homer and Virgil in modern American poetry." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:9d1045f5-3134-432b-8654-868c3ef9b7de.
Full textTaylor, Barnaby. "Word and object in Lucretius : Epicurean linguistics in theory and practice." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:c0ed507b-6436-4c84-8457-34fa707af79a.
Full textJames, Paula. "Unity in diversity a study of Apuleius' Metamorphoses : with particular reference to the narrator's art of transformation and the metamorphosis motif in the Tale of Cupid and Psyche /." Hildesheim ; New York : Olms-Weidmann, 1987. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/15604421.html.
Full textRees, William J. "Cassius Dio, human nature and the late Roman Republic." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:75230c97-3ac1-460d-861b-5cb3270e481e.
Full textGriffin, Michael J. "The reception of the Categories of Aristotle, c. 80 BC to AD 220." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2009. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f4149a7e-2ad0-4d7b-b428-2ba55acf22d3.
Full textPiantanida, Cecilia. "Classical lyricism in Italian and North American 20th-century poetry." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:4422c01a-ba88-4fe0-a21f-4804e4c610ce.
Full textEgea, Carrasco Adolfo. "La poesía gastronómica latina." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/293258.
Full textTh e main theme of this dissertation is the Roman gastronomical poetry, since its origins in the pre-classic period until Horace’s Satires 2.4 and 2.8. The concept of “Roman gastronomical poetry” is based on the studies on Greek gastronomical poetry by Enzo Degani, who established two main tendences, namely, the “didactic” one (e.g., Archestratus) and the “ekphrastic” one (e.g., Matro of Pitane). Nevertheless, the first chapter covers other authors of di.erents genres, such as Annanius and Hipponax (jambus), or Epicharmus, Aristophanes, Eubulus and Alexis (comedy). Roman authors of the archaic period are studied in detail: Ennius, Lucilius and Varro. Many critical issues affect their texts due to their fragmentary condition. Finally, Horace’s satires 2.4 and 2.8 are studied taking into account the tradition of the gastronomical poetry as reviewed in the precedent chapters. Other issues, such as the concept of "σπουδαιογέλοιον"or the metapoetic interpretation of these satires are analized as well.
Smith-Laing, Tim. "Variorum vitae : Theseus and the arts of mythography in Medieval and early modern Europe." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0f4305c6-3c62-4f89-a3b2-d8204893fdfb.
Full textBonfiglio, Emilio. "John Chrysostom's discourses on his first exile : Prolegomena to a Critical Edition of the Sermo antequam iret in exsilium and of the Sermo cum iret in exsilium." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:df828fcd-dc2a-47b9-8bb1-c957c9199fb1.
Full textSchwartzman, Lauren J. "Contest and community : wonder-working in Christian popular literature from the second to the fifth centuries CE." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a3de02f7-18a9-4363-8bbf-cea5a73eb223.
Full textRoane, Nancy Lee. "Misreading the River: Heraclitean Hope in Postmodern Texts." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1431966455.
Full textVarney, Jennifer. "H.d. And the translation of classical greek literature." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/80714.
Full textThroughout her career, the American poet H.D. (1886-1961) engaged with classical myth. Despite the numerous translations from Greek tragedy that H.D. produced, very little research has been carried out into this area of the poet’s work. In order to identify the influences and power relations that fed into H.D.’s translations and shaped her activity as translator, this thesis analyses not only the translations that H.D. produced during the early stages of her career (1913-1920), but also the contexts in which these translations were rendered. The driving force behind this study is the desire to interrogate H.D.’s treatment of gender in her translations and the extent to which questions of gender were relevant to her role as translator.
Badnall, Toni Patricia. "The wedding song in Greek literature and culture." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2009. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12089/.
Full textDeutsch, Katherine Ariela. "Platonic Footnotes: Figures of Asymmetry in Ancient Greek Thought." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:26566091.
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Workman, Jameson Samuel. "Chaucerian metapoetics and the philosophy of poetry." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:8cf424fd-124c-4cb0-9143-e436c5e3c2da.
Full textSonin, Joanne Faye. "The verbalisation of non-verbal communication in classical Greek texts." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1999. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/251681.
Full textZourgou, Anna. "The judgement of Paris in ancient Greek art and literature." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2018. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/51092/.
Full textCartlidge, Benjamin John. "The language of Menander Comicus and its relation to the Koine." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:37b595ee-b259-4947-bd81-abdd034b5d88.
Full textBaker, Renan. "A study of a late antique corpus of biographies (Historia Augusta)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:4722d4da-5f09-4306-837f-45c6cf69ec21.
Full textJong, Albert de. "Traditions of the Magi : Zoroastrianism in Greek and Latin literature /." Leiden ; New York ; Köln : E. J. Brill, 1997. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb36966419z.
Full textHammond, Rhona Bobbi. "The influence of the classical tradition on the poetry of Derek Walcott." Thesis, Open University, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.368004.
Full textBocksberger, Sophie Marianne. "Telamonian Ajax : a study of his reception in Archaic and Classical Greece." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a9bacb2a-7ede-4603-9e6a-bf7f492332ed.
Full textChen, Jingling. "An Acropolis in China: The Appropriation of Ancient Greek Tradition in Modern Chinese Literature." Thesis, Harvard University, 2016. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33493311.
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Cairns, Douglas Laidlaw. "The concept of Aidos in Greek literature from Homer to 404 BC." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1987. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1379/.
Full textUchitel, Alexander. "Mycenaean and Near Eastern economic archives." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1985. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1317733/.
Full textProdi, Enrico Emanuele. "Pindar's Prosodia : introduction, text, and commentary to selected fragments." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3c75c05c-30f3-45b3-8e12-896ffe687a7b.
Full textStrazdins, Estelle Amber. "The future of the second sophistic." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:6ca95d02-246c-4dee-be90-675278ac5e92.
Full textPhipps, S. R. "The styles and voices of non-dramatic Greek poetry in the fourth century BC." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b4003441-7b02-4441-b5c6-8990d62dad9d.
Full textKelly, Michael. "Jealousy in love relations in Greek and Roman literature /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2005. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe18555.pdf.
Full textNikolaev, Alexander Sergeevich. "Diachronic Poetics and Language History: Studies in Archaic Greek Poetry." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10489.
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Dasteridou, Magdalini. "Fear and Healing Through the Serpent Imagery in Greek Tragedy." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:24078361.
Full textRoussou, Stephanie. "Pseudo-Arcadius' Epitome of Herodian's Περὶ καθολικῆς προσῳδίας : with a critical edition and notes on Books 1-8." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:235409a4-7f6c-4495-83b3-41f8291f46d4.
Full textvan, Emde Boas Evert H. "Linguistic studies in Euripides' Electra." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:dbecc2f8-f980-4a33-9fdc-20d8c1329dc5.
Full textSlattery, Samuel Robert. "Editions of a selection of literary, paraliterary, and documentary papyri from Oxyrhynchus." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:00f55cac-1a3a-4e63-8ac9-65d7febd6bd8.
Full textZhou, Sharon. "Engineering Ingenium: Improving Engagement and Accuracy With the Visualization of Latin for Language Learning." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:14398527.
Full textParmar, Hiteshkumar Chimanlal. "Strabo and India." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/23448.
Full textHemingway, Ben. "The dream in classical Greece : debates and practices." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2009. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d0d272ee-e293-44bf-b8c2-02b68304d22f.
Full textVatri, Alessandro. "The linguistics of orality : a psycholinguistic approach to private and public performance of classical Attic prose." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2ef61a6c-a296-4c00-b7c9-78c5d7b5ffa8.
Full textPateridou, Georgia. "Yannis Psycharis's Greek novels (1888-1929) : didactic narratives, cultural views and self-referentiality." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2004. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7669/.
Full textVoyiatzaki, Evangelina. "The body in the text : James Joyce's Ulysses and the modern Greek novel." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2000. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/4380/.
Full textBowden, Hugh. "Herodotos and Greek sanctuaries." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1990. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:cf106c48-5008-46c2-a0e8-fcc94b20f159.
Full textPolten, Orla. "Spectres of metre : English poetry in classical measures, 1860-1930." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/278573.
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