Thesis
Queering the simile: being ‘like’ in ancient epic and contemporary queer poetry
- Alternative title:
- Queering the simile
- Abstract:
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In this thesis, my aim is to interrogate how the simile may serve as a vehicle for unconventional and non-conforming modes of presentation, imagination, and articulation of identity in classical epic poetry, and to showcase how we can extrapolate from such examples more general functionalities of the simile as a figure of speech with a particularly pronounced queer potential. Each chapter begins by taking soundings in similes from ancient epic and develops, through close readings of selected ...
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+ Guthenke, C
- Institution:
- University of Oxford
- Division:
- HUMS
- Department:
- Classics
- Sub department:
- Classical Languages & Lit
- Role:
- Supervisor
- ORCID:
- 0000-0003-3461-4249
+ Matzner, S
- Role:
- Supervisor
+ Clarendon College
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- Funder identifier:
- https://ror.org/04c49cg83
- Grant:
- 2020-8151942687
- Programme:
- Clarendon Fund
+ Arts and Humanities Research Council
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- Funder identifier:
- https://ror.org/0505m1554
- Grant:
- 2020-8151942687
- Programme:
- OOC AHRC DTP2 - Corpus Christi College Cowley Scholarship
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- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
- Language:
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English
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- Deposit date:
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2026-03-13
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- Copyright holder:
- Eleonora Colli
- Copyright date:
- 2025
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