In Ovid’s Tristia and Epistulae Ex Ponto, the Latin poet constructs an elaborate poetic persona endowed with its own agency, which evokes the sympathy of the reader through engaging in various modes of discourse. This inquiry examines, in depth, how Ovid fashioned his poeta structus through complex modes of discourse and from making use of conventions of genre, namely elegy and epic. These modes of discourse are identified and explored, as well as Ovid’s markedly hyperbolic treatment of the landscape and inhabitants of his exilic outpost of Tomis on the Black Sea. The implications of the exile being surrounded by the Sarmatian and Getic languages are also expounded upon, both in the way the poeta presents the putative effects of the language of the other, as well as the evidence of linguistic evolution in the ‘actuality’ of Ovid’s situation. A comparison is drawn between Cicero’s notion of naufragium, ‘shipwreck,’ and Ovid’s refinement of the term, as well as the rhetorical treatment of exile as a form of death by both authors. Lastly, a special addendum takes a fresh look at Alexander Pushkin’s nuanced reception of the Ovidian poeta structus in his own exilic poetry from 1820-1825.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin. / Vita. Photocopy of typescript. Ann Arbor, Mich., Xerox University Microfilms, 1974. 21 cm. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Bibliography: leaves 289-345.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1976. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 203-208).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1970. / Typescript and hand drawn illustrations. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 425-449).

Thesis--Helsinki. / Summary in English. A revision of the author's thesis (M.A.), Moscow University. Includes bibliographical references (p. [266-287]) and index.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1983. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 588-601).

Thesis--Wisconsin. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 203-208).

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Alexander Pushkin devoted the last five years of his life to research in the imperial archives in St. Petersburg publishing a number of works dealing with such historical figures as Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, Boris Godunov, and the rebel leaders Mazepa and Pugachev. This thesis examines Pushkin's historiographical methodology and conclusions and considers Pushkin's writings from the viewpoint of the historian rather than the literary critic. It offers a chronological study of the four fictional and non-fictional works in which Pushkin analysed major figures and events in Russian history and traces the importance he attributed to them for the development of the Russian national consciousness. The themes of rebellion against the state and political legitimacy predominate in this investigation and shed light on how Pushkin's study of history reinforced and, in some instances altered, his own fundamental political and social beliefs.