The Human Tragicomedy: the Reception of Apuleius’ Golden Ass in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-69583-2 (ISBN)
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Does the story of Lucius, a curious and lustful young man who is magically transformed into an ass, have anything to teach us today? Does it have a serious, philosophical and religious meaning, or is it just a form of literary play, full of adventures, magic, sex, violence, and religion? This volume studies the reception of the novel in the last hundred years, showing also the most promising and diverse research perspectives for the future. Apuleius claimed that a philosopher must possess a mirror; perhaps, his novel is a mirror for us to look into.
Mateusz Stróżyński is Associate Professor in the Institute of Classical Philology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. He is the co-editor, with J.Fiećko, of Adam Mickiewicz, Metaphysical Poems (Brill, 2023) and the author of Plotinus on the Contemplation of the Intelligible World: Faces of Being and Mirrors of Intellect (Cambridge University Press, 2024). He is also founding editor of the online journal Antigone. Contributors are Nicholas Banner, Jakub Handszu, Douglas Hedley, Warren S. Smith, Mateusz Stróżyński, Łukasz Berger, Andrea Musio.
Contents
Introduction: Lucius’ Wandering into the New Millennium
Mateusz Stróżyński
Part 1: The Sun at Midnight
1 The Ineffable and the Arcane in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses
Nicholas Banner
2 Apuleius’ Metamorphoses: a Jungian Perspective
Jakub Handszu
3 Shame and Glory: C.S. Lewis and the Tale of Cupid and Psyche
Douglas Hedley
Part 2: Divine Comedy
4 Humour and Satire in Book Eleven of The Golden Ass
Warren S. Smith
5 The Divine Joke: C.S. Lewis and The Golden Ass
Mateusz Stróżyński
Part 3: Weaving Together Different Tales
6 Lucius’ Games of Politeness
Łukasz Berger
7 The Reception of Apuleius in Italian Theatre and Cinema
Andrea Musio
8 Au hasard, Apuleius? The Uses of The Golden Ass in the Twenty-First Century Novel and Cinema
Mateusz Stróżyński
Conclusion: Quiring to the Young-Eyed Cherubins
Mateusz Stróżyński
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 22.08.2024 |
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Reihe/Serie | Metaforms ; 26 |
Verlagsort | Leiden |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
Gewicht | 1 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 90-04-69583-4 / 9004695834 |
ISBN-13 | 978-90-04-69583-2 / 9789004695832 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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