Search for dissertations about: "epideictic"

Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the word epideictic.

  2. 1. Celebrating with Words : Studies in the Rhetorical Works of the Gaza School

    Author : David Westberg; Jan Olof Rosenqvist; Ruth Webb; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Gaza school; Late Antique rhetoric; Late Antique oratory; epideictic; Choricius of Gaza; Procopius of Gaza; classical tradition; mimesis; panegyric; funeral speeches; wedding speeches; ecphrasis; Classical philology; Klassiska språk; Greek; grekiska;

    Abstract : This study investigates the School of Gaza, a circle of rhetoricians in Late Antique Palestine. Special attention is paid to Choricius and Procopius of Gaza, and in particular to their epideictic works. READ MORE

  4. 2. Scripta Imagine : Buildings, Transformations, and Rhetorical Ekphrasis in Statius’ Silvae

    Author : Samuel Douglas; Christer Henriksén; Carole Newlands; Bruce Gibson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Statius; Ekphrasis; Rhetoric; Latin; Latin; Latin;

    Abstract : Statius’ Silvae, his collected epideictic poems in five volumes, have long been recognised as a descriptive tour-de-force, with its extensive depictions of buildings, people, and art. Modern critical responses to these have been varied, identifying a wide variety of influences and stylistic tendencies in these works. READ MORE

  5. 3. A European State of Mind : Rhetorical Formations of European Identity within the EU 1973–2014

    Author : Louise Schou Therkildsen; Mats Rosengren; Jon Viklund; Orla Vigsø; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; constitutive rhetoric; collective identity formation; the European Union; European identity; rhetorical studies; close reading; Rhetoric; Retorik;

    Abstract : European identity has become a central issue in the EU’s political imaginary. In recent years, European identity—and related notions of a European destiny, European culture, and a European narrative—has been deployed as a weapon against the rise of the political far-right across Europe. READ MORE