Date of Award
Spring 2024
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
English
Committee Director
Drew Lopenzina
Committee Member
Roseleen Keefe
Committee Member
Don Rodrigues
Committee Member
Kristi Costello
Abstract
Through the process of social circulation and critical imagination, Sappho’s poetry, which maintains rhetoric that women, nature, and love are related to ritual and feminine divinity, intersects with queer digital rhetoric. Via discussion of feminist spirituality rhetoric, Marie Cartier’s lesbian theology, and rhetorical and literary analysis of Sappho’s lyrical fragments, I explore her Ancient Greek mythological, cultural aesthetics. I then connect sapphic rhetoric to two contemporary artifacts that represent or influence contemporary feminist, digital, and queer identities: the lyrics of the Irish musician Andrew Hozier-Byrne, known as Hozier and TikTok comment sections surrounding Hozier’s music and concert clips.
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DOI
10.25777/tgw4-7z65
ISBN
9798382770420
Recommended Citation
Kovalcik, Sophia M..
"Hozier, TikTok, and Sapphic Rhetoric"
(2024). Master of Arts (MA), Thesis, English, Old Dominion University, DOI: 10.25777/tgw4-7z65
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/english_etds/187
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