The Invisible Ass A Reading Of Apuleius Metamorphoses
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Author | : Geoffrey Callahan Benson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781303422249 |
Modern criticism of Apuleius' Metamorphoses (or The Golden Ass) continues to reveal the richness of this narrative, but it has not yet considered a complex of themes that Apuleius has put at the heart of the novel. This dissertation argues that the Metamorphoses has a special interest in invisibility and absence. The Invisible Ass explores why the Metamorphoses is so interested in these themes and what bearing they have on the controversies about the Metamorphoses' ending and tone.
Author | : Geoffrey C. Benson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2019-05-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108475558 |
Argues that invisibility is a central motif in Apuleius' Metamorphoses, presenting a new interpretation of this Latin masterpiece.
Author | : Apuleius |
Publisher | : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks |
Total Pages | : 45 |
Release | : 2021-11-07 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 3986774955 |
Cupid and Psyche Apuleius - Cupid and Psyche is a story from the Latin novel Metamorphoses, also known as The Golden Ass, written in the 2nd century AD by Apuleius. It concerns the overcoming of obstacles to the love between Psyche (Soul or Breath of Life) and Cupid (Desire), and their ultimate union in a sacred marriage.
Author | : Apuleius |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 485 |
Release | : 1998-05-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 014190450X |
Written towards the end of the second century AD, The Golden Ass tells the story of the many adventures of a young man whose fascination with witchcraft leads him to be transformed into a donkey. The bewitched Lucius passes from owner to owner - encountering a desperate gang of robbers and being forced to perform lewd 'human' tricks on stage - until the Goddess Isis finally breaks the spell and Lucius is initiated into her cult. Apuleius' enchanting story has inspired generations of writers such as Boccaccio, Shakespeare, Cervantes and Keats with its dazzling combination of allegory, satire, bawdiness and sheer exuberance, and remains the most continuously and accessibly amusing book to have survived from Classical antiquity.
Author | : Apuleius |
Publisher | : Bryn Mawr Commentaries, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : |
Bryn Mawr Commentaries provide clear, concise, accurate, and consistent support for students making the transition from introductory and intermediate texts to the direct experience of ancient Greek and Latin literature. They assume that the student will know the basics of grammar and vocabulary and then provide the specific grammatical and lexical notes that a student requires to begin the task of interpretation. Hackett Publishing Company is the exclusive distributor of the Bryn Mawr Commentaries in North America, the United Kingdom, and Europe.
Author | : Marcella Althaus-Reid |
Publisher | : SCM Press |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2013-02-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0334049067 |
Trans/formations is a new addition to "SCM's Controversies in Contextual Theology" series. Like anything coming from Marcella Althaus-Reid and Lisa Isherwood, it is controversial and challenging as well as highly original. The book will: make visible a range of trans lived experience [transgendered and transsexual], offer theological reflection on these experiences, create challenging theology from this experiential base, and provide a resource for churches and theology students not to date available. It includes an excellent range of contributors, including Elizabeth Stuart and Virginia Ramey Mollenkott. This is a valuable addition to reading lists of courses on religion, gender and the body.
Author | : Apuleius |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 652 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Latin fiction |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Michael Paschalis |
Publisher | : Barkhuis |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9080739022 |
This special issue of Ancient Narrative Supplementum 1, entitled 'Space in the Ancient Novel', brings together a collection of revised papers, originally presented at the International conference under the same title organized by the Department of Philology (Division of Classics) of the University of Crete and held in Rethymnon, on May 14-15, 2001. This conference inaugurated what is hoped to become a new series of biennial International meetings on the Ancient Novel (RICAN, Rethymnon International Conferences on the Ancient Novel) which aspires to continue the reputable tradition of the Groningen Colloquia on the Novel, established by Heinz Hofmann and Maaike Zimmerman. Ancient Narrative Supplementum 1 includes two additional contributions by Catherine Connors and Judith Perkins, both originally presented in ICAN 2000 at Groningen in July 25-30, 2000 and included here in revised form, and an article by Stelios Panayotakis, which closely relates to the theme of the Rethymnon conference.
Author | : Edmund Cueva |
Publisher | : Barkhuis |
Total Pages | : 773 |
Release | : 2019-02-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9492444690 |
The Fifth International Conference on the Ancient Novel, which was held in Houston, Texas, in the fall of 2015, brought together scholars and students of the ancient novel from all over the world in order to share new and significant developments about this fascinating field of study and its important place in the field of Classical Studies. The essays contained in these two volumes are clear evidence that the ancient novel has become a valuable part of the Classics canon and its scholarly attempts to understand the ancient Graeco-Roman world.
Author | : Carl C. Schlam |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2017-03-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1469620715 |
This book examines the comic and philosophical aspects of Apuleius' Metamorphoses, the ancient Roman novel also known as The Golden Ass. The tales that comprise the novel, long known for their bawdiness and wit, describe the adventures of Lucius, a man who is transformed into an ass. Carl Schlam argues that the work cannot be seen as purely comic or wholly serious; he says that the entertainment offered by the novel includes a vision of the possibilities of grace and salvation. Many critics have seen a discontinuity between the comedic aspects of the first ten tales and the more elevated account in the eleventh of the initiation of Lucius into the cult of Isis. But Schlam uncovers patterns of narrative and a thematic structure that give coherence to the adventures of Lucius and to the diversity of tales embedded in the principal narrative. Schlam sees a single seriocomic purpose pervading the narrative, which is marked by elements of burlesque as well as intimations of an ethical religious purpose. As Schlam points out, however, the world of second-century Rome cannot easily be divided into the sacred and the secular. Such neat distinctions were largely unknown in the ancient world, and Apuleius' tales are a part of a tradition, flowing from Homer, that addressed both religious and philosophical issues. Originally published in 1992. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.