Sökning: "early Christian poetry"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 avhandlingar innehållade orden early Christian poetry.
1. Proba the Prophet : Studies in the Christian Virgilian Cento of Proba
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2. Proba the Prophet: Studies in the Christian Virgilian Cento of Faltonia Betitia Proba
Sammanfattning : The present study aims to deepen the critical understanding of the fourth century poet Faltonia Betitia Proba’s Cento and its reception, a text of considerable historical and cultural importance. Not only is it one of few extant Latin texts from antiquity by a woman writer, but it is also one of our oldest Christian Latin poems; it is an early example of cultural amalgamation of the Judeo-Christian and Greco-Roman exegetical and literary traditions in that it is almost exclusively composed with verses from Virgil’s Aeneid, Georgics, and Eclogues, but narrates key episodes from the Old and New Testament. LÄS MER
3. Studies on Juvencus' Language and Style
Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with the language and style used in the poem Evangeliorum Libri Quattuor by the fourth-century Christian poet Juvencus. The poem, a rendering of the biblical story of Jesus in dactylic poetry, initiated a literary genre, which is referred to as biblical epic. LÄS MER
4. The green shadow of Christ : a reception-exegetical study of Jesus and Pan in the gospel of Mark
Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates presentations of Jesus in the gospel of Mark, mainly chapter 6 and 9, in the light of the juxtaposition of Christ and the Greek nature god Pan. This juxtaposition recurs in the reception history of Pan in Western European culture. LÄS MER
5. Tårarnas poetik : Nelly Sachs författarskap fram till och med In den Wohnungen des Todes
Sammanfattning : The dissertation Poetics of Tears: Nelly Sachs’s authorship to In den Wohnungen des Todes inquires into the early literary works of Nelly Sachs, written before the poet’s exile in Sweden. The study is based on an extensive archive research including a complete inventory of Sachs’s early writings, both her poetry and prose, and her scenic poetry and ”Puppenspiele”. LÄS MER