Search for dissertations about: "HYPOTEXTUALITY"
Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the word HYPOTEXTUALITY.
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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
Abstract : 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. READ MORE