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This dissertation reevaluates the model of poet as prophet in Russian literature as a mechanism of political and social negotiation between the early nineteenth century Russia educated gentry, the imperial state, and the Russian reading public. Beginning in the Catherinian era, …

This dissertation is a combination of a critical essay and an original collection of poetry. The essay examines the tradition of the elegiac lyric as either an act of private mourning or a public ceremonial ritual. It traces the two predominant elegiac traditions in Western cult…

This thesis will explore the concept of the patrimonial foundation of art in the Ottoman Empire and the relationship between the poet and patron by first examining the historical context to these phenomena. While discussing the notion of patronage, one of the significant questio…

My dissertation explores the ethics of shame and honor at the end of the Republic to offer new perspectives on Tibullus’ work and Roman elegy. By situating Tibullus’ corpus within his contemporaries’ aristocratic discourse on honor, my research argues that the elegiac narrator i…

This project examines the function of the city of Rome in Ovid’s Ars Amatoria and Fasti. In doing so, it focuses on the ways in which Ovid plays with concepts and expectations of genre and gender in his depictions of Rome. As Ovid’s two major didactic elegies, the Ars Amatoria a…

Women's verse constitutes an integral part of the classical Arabic poetic canon, yet it is often critically differentiated from men's and thus merits distinct treatment. This dissertation explores those sites in the canon where women's poetry thrived and how and why their contri…