Moritura: Gendered Readings of Women's Suicides in Latin Poetry Through The Methodology of Living Death (thesis)
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McKenney, Claire Elizabeth
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Washington and Lee University -- Honors in Classics
Latin poetry
Suicide in literature
Gender identity in literature
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Thesis; [FULL-TEXT AVAILABLE FOLLOWING A 5-YEAR EMBARGO] Claire Elizabeth McKenney is a member of the Class of 2022 of Washington and Lee University. This thesis will examine the ideal reader's perception of four women who die by suicide in Latin poetry from two different eras: The Golden Age and the Silver Age and it will propose a
analytical framework for examining the tension between which I will refer to throughout as "the living dead." . . . The four case studies will be examined in chronological order of their authorship. Chapter One will consider the case studies from the Golden Age of Latin poetry (70 BCE-18 AD) while Chapter Two will consider the case studies taken from the Silver Age (18 AD-133 AD). [From Introduction] Claire McKenney