Francesca started following the work of Siobhan McElduff, University of British Columbia, Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies.
Francesca started following the work of Donald Lavigne, Texas Tech University, Classical & Modern Languages & Literatures.
Francesca so not ready for the start of term in a few weeks. Suddenly it feels like there are not enough hours in the day...
Graduate Student, Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity
College of Arts and Law
Thesis Title: (Provisional) "The 'Epic' of Martial"
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Gideon Nisbet
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About
What I propose to do is explore a new reading of Martial’s Epigrams looking at the way in which the theme of oral sex and os impurum connects together the poems of individual books and the twelve-book series. I use this theme not just as it is one which stands out and has a precedence in earlier literature, but, as I will show through an application of Iser’s theory of gaps in the text providing a structure for the reader, and the importance of rereading, is a theme which combines with other themes in the Epigrams to provide a sum greater than its parts, and one which is important for an understanding of the Epigrams as a whole.
Contact Information
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