Search for dissertations about: "textual criticism"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 18 swedish dissertations containing the words textual criticism.

2. 1. The Epistle of Jude : Its Text and Transmission

   Author : Tommy Wasserman; Bibelvetenskap; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; internal evidence; New Testament; external evidence; textual variant; textual commentary; lectionary; minuscule; uncial; amulet; P78; P72; Bodmer Codex; papyrus; textual criticism; literary relationship; 2 Peter; Jude; Bible; Catholic Epistles; papyrology; paleography; codicology; Christianity; Kristendom;

   Abstract : This study treats the textual tradition of the Epistle of Jude. After an introductory survey of earlier text-critical research, the two main purposes of this investigation are formulated: to gather and to analyze the complete textual evidence of the Epistle of Jude. READ MORE

4. 2. Alciphron, Letters of the Courtesans : Edited with Introduction, Translation and Commentary

   Author : Patrik Granholm; Ingela Nilsson; Diether Roderich Reinsch; Heinz-Günther Nesselrath; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Alciphron; letters of the courtesans; Greek letters; fictitious letters; critical edition; parallel translation; commentary; textual notes; textual criticism; manuscript studies; manuscript tradition; Classical Greek language; Klassisk grekiska; Greek; Grekiska;

   Abstract : This dissertation aims at providing a new critical edition of the fictitious Letters of the Courtesans attributed to Alciphron (late 2nd or early 3rd century AD).The first part of the introduction begins with a brief survey of the problematic dating and identification of Alciphron, followed by a general overview of the epistolary genre and the letters of Alciphron. READ MORE

5. 3. Emily Dickinson : A study of the production of an author

   Author : Lena Christensen; Engelska; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; General and comparative literature; editorial theory; electronic archives; biography; textual criticism; American poetry; American literary history; Emily Dickinson; literature criticism; literary theory; Allmän och jämförande litteratur; litteraturkritik; litteraturteori;

   Abstract : Since they were first published in the 1890's Emily Dickinson's (1830-1886) poems have elicited queries regarding the proprieties of editing. This dissertation considers processes through which Dickinson's work has been edited in the twentieth century and how such editorial processes contribute specifically to the production of Emily Dickinson as author. READ MORE

6. 4. Malory and Authorship: A Study of an Irresolvable Debate

   Author : Marie Wallin; Engelska; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; medieval literature; Eugène Vinaver; C.S. Lewis; textual criticism; Arthurian literature; Sir Thomas Malory; Le Morte Darthur; William Caxton; authorship;

   Abstract : This thesis examines the scholarly study of Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur, especially the way in which the field has been shaped by the discovery of the Winchester MS in 1934. Owing to the complex relationship between the manuscript and the printed edition of 1485, both contradictory and co-dependent, Le Morte seems to invite a number of narratives regarding its origins and originality while simultaneously foreclosing definitive resolution. READ MORE

7. 5. Eustathios of Thessalonike: Parekbolai on Homer’s Odyssey 1–2 : Proekdosis

   Author : Eric Cullhed; Ingela Nilsson; Filippomaria Pontani; Emmanuel Bourbouhakis; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Eustathios of Thessalonike; Parekbolai; Homer; The Odyssey; Komnenian literature; authorship; rhetoric; hermeneutics; ideology; codicology; textual criticism; Greek; Grekiska;

   Abstract : This thesis provides a critical edition of the Parekbolai (“Excerpts”) on the first two rhapsodies of Homer’s Odyssey produced by Eustathios (c. 1115–95), teacher and celebrated orator in Constantinople under the reign of Manuel I Komnenos and later archbishop of Thessalonike, the second city of the Byzantine empire. READ MORE