Search for dissertations about: "orator"

Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the word orator.

  2. 1. Libanius' Declamations 9 and 10

    Author : Mikael Johansson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Libanius; Pseudo-Hermogenes; Themistocles; Neocles; Herodotus; Aelius Aristides; De inventione; rhetoric; declamation; judicial oratory; prooimia; diegesis; pistis; epilogos; basis; apokeryxis;

    Abstract : Of the Antiochene orator Libanius, active in the 4th century A.D., we have an unusually large quantity of literary products preserved. The works attributed to him include among others speeches, progymnasmata, and letters. READ MORE

  4. 2. Fredrika Bremer and the Writing of America

    Author : Laurel Ann Lofsvold; Litteraturvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; General and comparative literature; women; slavery; homes; America; Catharine M. Sedgwick; Anne C. Lynch; James Russell Lowell; Margaret Fuller; Ralph Waldo Emerson; A. J. Downing; Lydia Maria Child; Frederick Douglass; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Fredrika Bremer; literature criticism; literary theory; Allmän och jämförande litteratur; litteraturkritik; litteraturteori;

    Abstract : Hemmen i den nya verlden(1853-4) is novelist Fredrika Bremer's 3-volume travel diary in letter form, a literary account of her two years' travel in the United States and Cuba. Bremer wove, into the America she "wrote," a number of American authors and their works. Novelist Catharine Sedgwick and poet and socialite Anne C. READ MORE

  5. 3. 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

  6. 4. 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