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1. Cohn, Matthew D. The Admonishing Muse: Ancient Interpretations of Personal Abuse in Old Comedy.

Degree: PhD, Classical Studies, 2013, University of Michigan

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/98063

► Old Comedy inaugurated a tradition in the West that comedy could and perhaps should be publicly engaged. Its most remarkable form of engagement was personal… (more)

▼ Old Comedy inaugurated a tradition in the West that comedy could and perhaps should be publicly engaged. Its most remarkable form of engagement was personal abuse, which, the poets claimed, attacked wrongdoers and benefited the public. This was also Old Comedy's most controversial feature, and this dissertation explores the ancient interpretations of its personal abuse and the role of abuse in the construction of comedy as a genre. This study reconstructs and examines the theories of Aristotle, Eratosthenes, and Varro concerning the role of abuse in the development of comedy. Their theories all trace the origins of comedy to abuse, but it is a limited kind that is not civically engaged and perhaps rightfully disappeared from comedy. Some of these negative evaluations of Old Comedy's abuse are connected to critiques of the democracy, and Plutarch correlates the dangerous and irresponsible abuse of Old Comedy with the dangerous and irresponsible demos that enabled it. This study shows that a counter-narrative developed, according to which Old Comic abuse attacked wrongdoers, defended the democracy, and ended because the elite wanted to do wrong with impunity. Despite the theories that would exclude personal abuse from comedy, by late antiquity it had become such an important criterion for defining the genre that Roman satire and satyr play, which began incorporating personal abuse in the fourth century, were classified as subcategories of comedy and descendents of Old Comedy. This study argues that Old Comedy's personal abuse came to be seen as comparable to Cynic discourse in its use of the seriocomic mode, which corrected listeners by mixing biting criticism of vice with a pleasurable element. While Dio Chrysostom, Plutarch, and Aelius Aristides raise objections, Byzantine criticism continues to use this mode of analysis. The idea that Old Comedy's vulgar, vicious, and abusive humor served a good cause may have justified it and contributed to Aristophanes' survival. Advisors/Committee Members: Janko, Richard (committee member), Saxonhouse, Arlene W. (committee member), Dufallo, Basil J. (committee member), Schironi, Francesca (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Interpretations of Personal Abuse in Old Comedy; Ancient Reception of Old Comedy; Classical Studies; Humanities

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Cohn, M. D. (2013). The Admonishing Muse: Ancient Interpretations of Personal Abuse in Old Comedy. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/98063

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Cohn, Matthew D. “The Admonishing Muse: Ancient Interpretations of Personal Abuse in Old Comedy.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed January 19, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/98063.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Cohn, Matthew D. “The Admonishing Muse: Ancient Interpretations of Personal Abuse in Old Comedy.” 2013. Web. 19 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Cohn MD. The Admonishing Muse: Ancient Interpretations of Personal Abuse in Old Comedy. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2013. [cited 2021 Jan 19]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/98063.

Council of Science Editors:

Cohn MD. The Admonishing Muse: Ancient Interpretations of Personal Abuse in Old Comedy. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/98063

University of Michigan

2. Tohm, Shonda K. Contesting Masculinity: Locating the Male Body in Roman Elegy.

Degree: PhD, Classical Studies, 2011, University of Michigan

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/91608

► As the question stands now in the study of Roman elegy, there exists no comprehensive examination of the poetic construction of the male body set… (more)

▼ As the question stands now in the study of Roman elegy, there exists no comprehensive examination of the poetic construction of the male body set against traditional Roman discourse on masculinity. This dissertation explores the complexity of gender within Roman elegy by assessing the fluidity of the male poet-lover’s gender identity as it is manipulated within the fluctuating poetic constructions of his body. While the persona of the author—the poet-lover—frequently asserts his subservience to the dominant puella (girlfriend), elegy’s poet-lover does not exhibit a static, unchangingly effeminate identity. At times the poet-lover is, indeed, effeminate, but at others he lays claim to an identity more masculine than that of the paradigmatic figure of the Roman soldier, whose identity is similarly entangled and destabilized by the elegiac discourse on the male body. The system of gender identity articulated in the amatory narrative thus presents a dynamic that is more complex than the simple inversion of traditional notions of masculinity can represent. I argue that the corporeal discourse on the male body shifts to represent the rhetorical needs of the lover in a given poem, needs which are mediated by his interaction with the puella, but also by his peers and rivals. The more nuanced gender paradigm proposed here is formulated first by uncovering innovations in elegy’s treatment of the often conventionalized categories of the body (beauty, infirmity, and wounds) and second by analyzing the relative visual access granted to the range of elegiac male bodies. Through the adaptation of literary conventions and traditional signs, the poet-lover demonstrates the instability of traditional semiotics within normative Roman discourses. By extending the question of the lover’s elegiac and masculine identity to an examination of elegiac discourse on the male body and the interplay of this discourse with traditional Roman masculinity, this study elucidates the overall gender paradigm within which elegy operates. I conclude that elegiac corporeal discourse does not reflect a literary gender system isolated from that of the non-literary sphere, and that consequently the complexity and fluidity of elegiac identity in turn uncovers similar instability in normative Roman values and semiotics. Advisors/Committee Members: Caston, Ruth Rothaus (committee member), Dufallo, Basil J. (committee member), Gazda, Elaine K. (committee member), Potter, David S. (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Masculinity in Roman Elegy; Classical Studies; Humanities

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Tohm, S. K. (2011). Contesting Masculinity: Locating the Male Body in Roman Elegy. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/91608

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Tohm, Shonda K. “Contesting Masculinity: Locating the Male Body in Roman Elegy.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed January 19, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/91608.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Tohm, Shonda K. “Contesting Masculinity: Locating the Male Body in Roman Elegy.” 2011. Web. 19 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Tohm SK. Contesting Masculinity: Locating the Male Body in Roman Elegy. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2011. [cited 2021 Jan 19]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/91608.

Council of Science Editors:

Tohm SK. Contesting Masculinity: Locating the Male Body in Roman Elegy. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/91608

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3. Itkin, Alan Joshua. Bringing the Past Back to Life: Classical Motifs and the Representation of History in the Works of W. G. Sebald.

Degree: PhD, Comparative Literature, 2011, University of Michigan

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/84517

► This dissertation argues that the German author W. G. Sebald (1944-2001) uses motifs drawn from classical epic poetry to articulate a new mode of historical… (more)

▼ This dissertation argues that the German author W. G. Sebald (1944-2001) uses motifs drawn from classical epic poetry to articulate a new mode of historical representation suited to the traumatic historical events of the twentieth century. Sebald’s works represent the past in evocative images, while at the same time maintaining a focus on the highly constructed nature of the representations they thus create. This hybrid modernist-realist mode of representation, which I call nekyiastic modernism, is modeled on the idea of raising the dead past and bringing it into the living present. To articulate this mode of representation, Sebald draws on three linked classical motifs: nekyia (the raising of the dead), ekphrasis (the description of a work of art), and katabasis (the journey into the underworld). In doing so, he builds on the work of post-Holocaust authors and critical theorists, including Primo Levi, Peter Weiss, Paul Celan, and Siegfried Kracauer, who use these same classical tropes as metaphors for the work of memory and the writing of history in the wake of the Holocaust. Sebald’s work highlights an ambivalent relationship towards realist modes of representation in these authors’ works, a desire for realism but an ultimate disillusionment about its promise to capture the past as it really was. I argue that Sebald re-stages and subverts this desire for the real in the uncannily intense descriptions in his works. By moving the classical trope of raising the dead to the center of his aesthetic program, he also articulates a fundamentally different relationship to the past: For Sebald the present is the underworld in which the past is always present, waiting to be brought back to life. This dissertation seeks to go beyond the binary established by Hayden White between events that can be represented using realist techniques and modernist events that demand modernist techniques. Complex and traumatic events such as the Holocaust, I argue, call for hybrid modes of representation, like Sebald’s nekyiastic modernism, that transcend this distinction. Advisors/Committee Members: Dufallo, Basil J. (committee member), Hell, Julia C. (committee member), Barzilai, Maya (committee member), Von Moltke, Johannes (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: W. G. Sebald; German Jewish Authors; Classical Reception; Representation of History; Photography; General and Comparative Literature; Germanic Languages and Literature; Humanities

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Itkin, A. J. (2011). Bringing the Past Back to Life: Classical Motifs and the Representation of History in the Works of W. G. Sebald. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/84517

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Itkin, Alan Joshua. “Bringing the Past Back to Life: Classical Motifs and the Representation of History in the Works of W. G. Sebald.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed January 19, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/84517.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Itkin, Alan Joshua. “Bringing the Past Back to Life: Classical Motifs and the Representation of History in the Works of W. G. Sebald.” 2011. Web. 19 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Itkin AJ. Bringing the Past Back to Life: Classical Motifs and the Representation of History in the Works of W. G. Sebald. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2011. [cited 2021 Jan 19]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/84517.

Council of Science Editors:

Itkin AJ. Bringing the Past Back to Life: Classical Motifs and the Representation of History in the Works of W. G. Sebald. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/84517

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4. Lee, Ellen M. Lethaeus Amor: Love and Memory in Latin Elegy.

Degree: PhD, Classical Studies, 2016, University of Michigan

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/120681

► This dissertation considers the connection between love and memory (or, as often, forgetting) in Roman elegiac poetry, through the lens of Ovid’s Remedia Amoris (Cures… (more)

▼ This dissertation considers the connection between love and memory (or, as often, forgetting) in Roman elegiac poetry, through the lens of Ovid’s Remedia Amoris (Cures for Love). I argue that, by writing Remedia, the last poem in the corpus of Latin love elegy, as an ‘art of forgetting’ which purports to aid the unlucky lover by teaching him to forget love, Ovid underscores the significance of memory in the elegiac genre. By telling readers how to forget, Ovid reveals how previous poets, including himself, taught readers how to remember. I investigate the connection between love and memory in elegy by pinpointing elegiac modes of amorous memory production. My method of analysis extracts certain pieces of advice (praecepta) given by the didactic narrator of Remedia, who guides the reader to rid himself of love. Even as his purportedly curative precepts inevitably fail, they point to elegiac strategies for memory production. My chapters treat these methods of creating memory thematically, each outlining a different piece of advice for forgetting, paired with a corresponding strategy for memory production in the elegiac genre: strategies for memorialization after death (Chapter 1); strategies for rescripting the localized memory of love (Chapter 2); strategies for creating false memories of the beloved (Chapter 3); women’s strategies for epistolary memory production (Chapter 4); and strategies for scripting poetic memory through allusion and tropes (Chapter 5). I propose that Remedia offers a guide for the reader of elegy, underscoring the importance of these strategies of memory production for the program of the elegiac genre. In addition to considering how the advice Ovid gives recalls his own previous works (the Amores, Ars Amatoria, and Heroides), I explore how Ovid’s Remedia receives the works of his poetic predecessors, including Catullus, Propertius, Tibullus, and even Homer. To investigate the broader cultural milieu of Roman memorialization and mnemotechnics, I utilize frameworks from social, poetic, and cognitive memory studies. Advisors/Committee Members: Dufallo, Basil J (committee member), McCracken, Peggy S. (committee member), Potter, David S (committee member), Scodel, Ruth S (committee member), Caston, Ruth Rothaus (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Latin poetry; Classical Studies; Humanities

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Lee, E. M. (2016). Lethaeus Amor: Love and Memory in Latin Elegy. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/120681

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Lee, Ellen M. “Lethaeus Amor: Love and Memory in Latin Elegy.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed January 19, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/120681.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Lee, Ellen M. “Lethaeus Amor: Love and Memory in Latin Elegy.” 2016. Web. 19 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Lee EM. Lethaeus Amor: Love and Memory in Latin Elegy. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2016. [cited 2021 Jan 19]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/120681.

Council of Science Editors:

Lee EM. Lethaeus Amor: Love and Memory in Latin Elegy. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/120681

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5. Pfaff, Matthew S. Strange New Canons: The Aesthetics of Classical Reception in 20th Century American Experimental Poetics.

Degree: PhD, Comparative Literature, 2013, University of Michigan

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/100079

► American experimental poets after modernism turned to Greek and Latin texts as pretexts to explode the ideal of the classical tradition, and to explore, instead,… (more)

▼ American experimental poets after modernism turned to Greek and Latin texts as pretexts to explode the ideal of the classical tradition, and to explore, instead, the radical discontinuity and linguistic alterity of the classics. Focusing on divergent but related modes of classical reception in American avant-garde poetry, this dissertation asks why and how “the classical” is a key site for poetic experiments by several generations of poets, including Louis Zukofsky, David Melnick, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Spicer, Charles Bernstein and Susan Howe. Though heterogeneous in many respects, their poetics demonstrate the irreconcilability of classical texts—in all their graphic, phonic, and material particularity—with an idea of classics at the center of Anglo-American culture. They create “strange new canons” through epitextual, paratextual, and metatextual engagements with classicism, demonstrating how canon becomes anti-canon, and opening up alternative models for canonical revision. After a theoretical introduction about literary canonicity and poetic innovation, each of the dissertation’s three chapters pairs two authors according to the dual criteria of literary period and mode of classical reception, tracing a line from late modernist Objectivism to the New American Poetry and Language Writing. Chapter One analyzes homophonic translation in Zukofsky’s Catullus and Melnick’s Homer, as two examples of “epitextual” poetics that foreground the material text. Chapter Two turns to Ginsberg and Spicer to compare different “paratextual” strategies of adaptation through the figures of Catullus and Orpheus, simultaneously critiquing hegemonic classicism and adapting “classics” for their own poetic purposes: while Ginsberg usurps and transposes classical authority for alternative texts and social identities, Spicer responds critically to Ginsberg by offering up an even more potent critique in his self-cancelling classical poetics. Chapter Three contrasts Bernstein’s poetics of citation with Howe’s poetics of luminous fragments (in Pythagorean Silence) with Bernstein’s poetics of citation (in The Sophist and elsewhere) as two examples of “metatextual” reception, creating classical simulacra divorced from Greek and Latin texts for ironic critique or historical transformation. The conclusion reflects further on the implications of American experimental poetics for rethinking the past and future of classical reception studies, and extends its implications into contemporary canon debates and avant-garde poetics. Advisors/Committee Members: Prins, Yopie (committee member), Ahbel-Rappe, Sara (committee member), Dufallo, Basil J. (committee member), Miller, Joshua L. (committee member), White, Gillian Cahill (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Experimental Poetics; Classical Reception Studies; Canon Debates; New American Poetry; Languge Poetry; 20th Century American Literature; American and Canadian Studies; Classical Studies; English Language and Literature; General and Comparative Literature; Humanities (General); Humanities

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Pfaff, M. S. (2013). Strange New Canons: The Aesthetics of Classical Reception in 20th Century American Experimental Poetics. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/100079

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Pfaff, Matthew S. “Strange New Canons: The Aesthetics of Classical Reception in 20th Century American Experimental Poetics.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed January 19, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/100079.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Pfaff, Matthew S. “Strange New Canons: The Aesthetics of Classical Reception in 20th Century American Experimental Poetics.” 2013. Web. 19 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Pfaff MS. Strange New Canons: The Aesthetics of Classical Reception in 20th Century American Experimental Poetics. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2013. [cited 2021 Jan 19]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/100079.

Council of Science Editors:

Pfaff MS. Strange New Canons: The Aesthetics of Classical Reception in 20th Century American Experimental Poetics. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/100079

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6. Fertik, Harriet H. Publicity, Privacy, and Power in Neronian Rome.

Degree: PhD, Classical Studies, 2014, University of Michigan

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/109041

► I examine Roman ideas of public and private and their relationship to the conception of absolute power. My study synthesizes a wide range of literary… (more)

▼ I examine Roman ideas of public and private and their relationship to the conception of absolute power. My study synthesizes a wide range of literary and material sources, including tragedy, epic, philosophy, historiography, and the novel, as well as Roman palatial architecture, domestic frescoes, and visual depictions of the Julio-Claudian family. I define privacy as the ability to avoid scrutiny and to act without public consequence, and I argue that lack of privacy became central to understanding the emperor’s role in the early imperial period. Focusing on the public/private dichotomy reveals the complexity of the conception of power relations in the mid-first century CE. While the significance of the imperial domus in political life has been a prominent concern in recent scholarship, I focus on how the public/private dichotomy illuminates the relationship between ruler and ruled: the publicity of the ruler makes him uniquely vulnerable, and this vulnerability threatens the community as a whole. I argue that the ruler is not only an all-powerful father figure, but also a potential target, vulnerable to those closest to him and to the community at large. Furthermore, the vulnerability of the ruler is a concern both for him and for the security of the community. Ultimately, one-man rule produces an intimacy between ruler and ruled that results in the transformation or disruption of all other bonds between members of the polity. I first examine exposure to public view as the defining feature of the ruler’s position in Seneca’s Apocolocyntosis and On Clemency and in Nero’s palace (the Golden House) and the implications of this exposure for the life of the community. Next, using domestic frescoes with theatrical imagery and Seneca’s Thyestes and Agamemnon, I focus on the ruler’s need to be seen and thus his dependence on and vulnerability to his subordinates. Then, drawing on dynastic sculpture groups, domestic art and architecture, Tacitus’ Annals, Seneca’s tragedies, Petronius’ Satyricon, and Lucan’s Civil War, I analyze the relationship between the house and family of the ruler and the wider community and how the rise of one-man rule creates a new kind of communal identity. Advisors/Committee Members: Potter, David S. (committee member), Gazda, Elaine K. (committee member), Seo, Joanne Mira (committee member), Schultz, Celia E. (committee member), Dufallo, Basil J. (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Roman Political Culture; Nero; Seneca; Lucan; Roman Visual Culture; Public and Private; Classical Studies; Humanities

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Fertik, H. H. (2014). Publicity, Privacy, and Power in Neronian Rome. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/109041

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Fertik, Harriet H. “Publicity, Privacy, and Power in Neronian Rome.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed January 19, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/109041.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Fertik, Harriet H. “Publicity, Privacy, and Power in Neronian Rome.” 2014. Web. 19 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Fertik HH. Publicity, Privacy, and Power in Neronian Rome. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2014. [cited 2021 Jan 19]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/109041.

Council of Science Editors:

Fertik HH. Publicity, Privacy, and Power in Neronian Rome. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/109041

7. Bembeneck, Emily Joy. The Princess is in Another Castle: Multi-Linear Stories in Oral Epic and Video Games.

Degree: PhD, Classical Studies, 2013, University of Michigan

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/100055

► My dissertation entitled The Princess Is in Another Castle: Multi-Linear Story Systems in Greek Epic and Video Games is an interdisciplinary investigation at the crux… (more)

▼ My dissertation entitled The Princess Is in Another Castle: Multi-Linear Story Systems in Greek Epic and Video Games is an interdisciplinary investigation at the crux of two scholarly debates in classics and digital media studies. In this study, I offer an understanding of narrative that can be applied across media and across disciplines, reaching from the traditional practice of Classics to the new and developing study of games. With a perspective that incorporates both the past and the present, I present a theoretical model of story that provides new insight into the way we construct narratives and find meaning within them. My study finds the common thread between oral and game narratives by investigating and comparing their story structures and authorial processes. Bards and players do not fully create new stories, but neither do they only take pre-made stories and adjust them. Rather, they take pieces of narrative, scenes here and actors there, and combine them into a new linear sequence. Narratives of this kind, those telling a single story through many possibilities, are multi-linear narratives. In the Iliad, we hear of different histories of Achilles’ education, we see hints of other possible happenings at Troy, and we see familiar yet different events in the traditional tale. In games, players are able to choose different paths for their characters, experiencing familiar events but with different results and different actors. Richer meaning and more developed characters arise in the contrast and interplay between the two (or more) tellings. A multi-linear understanding of story as a system variably built from interchangeable narrative pieces allows us to see that meaning and interpretation of these stories is highly dependent on the audience’s awareness of other possible story paths. It takes many encounters with the story to fully understand all its possibilities and turns, not only because of its many possible interpretations, but because the story has many possible linear sequences within it. Through a multi-linear understanding of narrative, we can see that traditional notions of narrative construction are only part of the story, one dependent on audience members as co-authors of unique narrative experiences. Advisors/Committee Members: Scodel, Ruth S. (committee member), Dufallo, Basil J. (committee member), Calleja, Gordon (committee member), Seo, Mira (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Narrative Theory; Game Studies; Homeric Poetry; Greek Literature; Digital Media; Classical Studies; Humanities

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Bembeneck, E. J. (2013). The Princess is in Another Castle: Multi-Linear Stories in Oral Epic and Video Games. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/100055

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Bembeneck, Emily Joy. “The Princess is in Another Castle: Multi-Linear Stories in Oral Epic and Video Games.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed January 19, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/100055.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Bembeneck, Emily Joy. “The Princess is in Another Castle: Multi-Linear Stories in Oral Epic and Video Games.” 2013. Web. 19 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Bembeneck EJ. The Princess is in Another Castle: Multi-Linear Stories in Oral Epic and Video Games. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2013. [cited 2021 Jan 19]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/100055.

Council of Science Editors:

Bembeneck EJ. The Princess is in Another Castle: Multi-Linear Stories in Oral Epic and Video Games. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/100055

8. Adkins, Evelyn Wynn. Rudis Locutor: Speech and Self-Fashioning in Apuleius' Metamorphoses.

Degree: PhD, Classical Studies, 2014, University of Michigan

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/107324

► This dissertation argues that discourse, broadly defined to include speech, silence, gesture, and text, is a primary tool for the negotiation of social and power… (more)

▼ This dissertation argues that discourse, broadly defined to include speech, silence, gesture, and text, is a primary tool for the negotiation of social and power relations in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses. I begin by conceptualizing the dynamics of identity construction and status negotiation in the speech of elite and non-elite characters. Chapter One discusses the distinctive uses of language by non-elite, alternative communities in the novel. Chapter Two documents successes and failures in the public speech of elite characters. Through these episodes, Apuleius establishes a dissonance between the intended production and actual reception of characters’ discourse, challenging the relationship between internal identity and external appearance and destabilizing speech as a marker of status and truth. With this framework in place, I turn to the problematic characterization of the protagonist Lucius. Chapter Three examines how Lucius undermines his own elite self-fashioning through words and actions. Chapter Four focuses on mystical silence versus garrulous curiosity and Lucius’ attempts to gain power and control through access to supernatural knowledge. Finally, Chapter Five discusses the novel itself as a discursive negotiation between the narrator Lucius and his characterized fictive reader. These misrepresentations, miscommunications, and misinterpretations prepare the reader for the final revelation of the narrator’s - and the author’s - identity in last book of the novel. In contrast with previous work that has emphasized the influence of single languages or genres on Apuleius, I interpret the Metamorphoses through the range of frameworks available to ancient readers, including allusions to Greek and Latin literature, mime, moral and philosophical discourses, rhetoric, and Roman law. I draw on ancient rhetorical treatises, modern discourse analysis, and sociological studies of language and power to analyze how social identities and relationships are negotiated via speech in the novel. I trace Apuleius’ contributions to contemporary debates about elite masculinity, the utility of a traditional rhetorical education, and the relationship between discourse, knowledge, truth, and power. This study thus argues for the centrality of Apuleius and the Metamorphoses within the social, cultural, and literary trends of the Second Sophistic and the second century C.E. Roman Empire. Advisors/Committee Members: Potter, David S. (committee member), Prins, Yopie (committee member), Ahbel-Rappe, Sara (committee member), Dufallo, Basil J. (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Apuleius; Metamorphoses; Discourse; Self-Fashioning; Speech; Classical Studies; Humanities

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Adkins, E. W. (2014). Rudis Locutor: Speech and Self-Fashioning in Apuleius' Metamorphoses. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/107324

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Adkins, Evelyn Wynn. “Rudis Locutor: Speech and Self-Fashioning in Apuleius' Metamorphoses.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed January 19, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/107324.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Adkins, Evelyn Wynn. “Rudis Locutor: Speech and Self-Fashioning in Apuleius' Metamorphoses.” 2014. Web. 19 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Adkins EW. Rudis Locutor: Speech and Self-Fashioning in Apuleius' Metamorphoses. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2014. [cited 2021 Jan 19]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/107324.

Council of Science Editors:

Adkins EW. Rudis Locutor: Speech and Self-Fashioning in Apuleius' Metamorphoses. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/107324

9. Greco, Olga. From Triumphal Gates to Triumphant Rotting: Refractions of Rome in the Russian Political Imagination.

Degree: PhD, Comparative Literature, 2015, University of Michigan

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/113345

► This dissertation explores the persistence and importance of the idea of a political Rome in the literature of the Russian Empire. I offer five case… (more)

▼ This dissertation explores the persistence and importance of the idea of a political Rome in the literature of the Russian Empire. I offer five case studies from five historical periods, starting in the eighteenth century and ending with the abdication of the tsar and the Bolshevik takeover in 1917. Despite the difference in their historical circumstances, each of these writers turns to Roman history and literature to think through and respond to Russian history and politics. However, Rome is a variable rather than a constant, and my more important goal is to draw attention to variability, to refractions of Rome, because Russian Romes are numerous. They appear and evolve in response to changing political circumstances, value systems, literary trends, and legacies of earlier Romes. I begin with the work of Mikhail Lomonosov (1711 - 1765), whose Rome is a historical and literary rival to the Russian Empire. This rivalry allows Lomonosov to transfer Rome’s grandeur onto Russia, presenting it as a great power with a proud military history and impressive literature. I then move to the writings of Gavrila Derzhavin (1743 - 1816), whose exemplary Rome re-frames the question of imperial greatness not in military but in ethical terms, urging moral and patriotic behavior both in the subjects and the rulers. Next, I turn to the Rome of Kondratii Ryleev (1795-1826) and Aleksandr Pushkin (1799-1837), which evokes the heroes of the Roman Republic rather than Empire to inspire the fight against autocracy. The next Rome is a Rome of broken ideals unsuitable to Russia, where there is no longer any possibility of meaningful civic involvement. It appears in the novel Oblomov, written by Ivan Goncharov (1812-1891), and works through hints and echoes to show the intolerability of contemporary reality and to question the viability and morality of escapism. The final Rome, that of Aleksandr Blok (1880-1921), is a “triumphantly rotting” corpse. It demonstrates the need for the annihilation of the entire existing political order and civilization, undoing the myths created at the inception of the Russian Empire. Advisors/Committee Members: Kivelson, Valerie Ann (committee member), Asso, Paolo (committee member), Dufallo, Basil J. (committee member), Paloff, Benjamin B. (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Classical reception; Russian literature; General and Comparative Literature; Humanities

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APA (6^th Edition):

Greco, O. (2015). From Triumphal Gates to Triumphant Rotting: Refractions of Rome in the Russian Political Imagination. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/113345

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Greco, Olga. “From Triumphal Gates to Triumphant Rotting: Refractions of Rome in the Russian Political Imagination.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed January 19, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/113345.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Greco, Olga. “From Triumphal Gates to Triumphant Rotting: Refractions of Rome in the Russian Political Imagination.” 2015. Web. 19 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Greco O. From Triumphal Gates to Triumphant Rotting: Refractions of Rome in the Russian Political Imagination. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2015. [cited 2021 Jan 19]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/113345.

Council of Science Editors:

Greco O. From Triumphal Gates to Triumphant Rotting: Refractions of Rome in the Russian Political Imagination. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/113345

10. Geller, Nicholas James. Roman Architexture: The Idea of the Monument in the Roman Imagination of the Augustan Age.

Degree: PhD, Classical Studies, 2015, University of Michigan

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/111470

► This dissertation explores the idea of the monument in the Roman imagination of the Augustan age (31 BCE – 14 CE). It examines the different… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Roman Monumentality; Augustan Poetry; Architexture; Classical Studies; Humanities

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Geller, N. J. (2015). Roman Architexture: The Idea of the Monument in the Roman Imagination of the Augustan Age. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/111470

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Geller, Nicholas James. “Roman Architexture: The Idea of the Monument in the Roman Imagination of the Augustan Age.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed January 19, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/111470.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Geller, Nicholas James. “Roman Architexture: The Idea of the Monument in the Roman Imagination of the Augustan Age.” 2015. Web. 19 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Geller NJ. Roman Architexture: The Idea of the Monument in the Roman Imagination of the Augustan Age. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2015. [cited 2021 Jan 19]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/111470.

Council of Science Editors:

Geller NJ. Roman Architexture: The Idea of the Monument in the Roman Imagination of the Augustan Age. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/111470

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