The Invisible Ass A Reading Of Apuleius Metamorphoses
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Apuleius Invisible Ass
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Author : Geoffrey C. Benson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-05-09
Apuleius Invisible Ass written by Geoffrey C. Benson and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-09 with History categories.
Argues that invisibility is a central motif in Apuleius' Metamorphoses, presenting a new interpretation of this Latin masterpiece.
The Invisible Ass A Reading Of Apuleius Metamorphoses
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Author : Geoffrey Callahan Benson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
The Invisible Ass A Reading Of Apuleius Metamorphoses written by Geoffrey Callahan Benson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with categories.
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.
Trans Formations
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Author : Marcella Althaus-Reid
language : en
Publisher: SCM Press
Release Date : 2013-02-11
Trans Formations written by Marcella Althaus-Reid and has been published by SCM Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-11 with Religion categories.
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.
Strategies Of Ambiguity In Ancient Literature
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Author : Martin Vöhler
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2021-02-22
Strategies Of Ambiguity In Ancient Literature written by Martin Vöhler and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
Ambiguity in the sense of two or more possible meanings is considered to be a distinctive feature of modern art and literature. It characterizes the "open artwork" (Eco) and is generated by "disruptive tactics" (Wellershoff) and strategies to engender uncertainty. While ambiguity is seen as a "paradigm of modernity" (Bode), there is skepticism regarding its use in the pre-modern era. Older studies were dominated by the conviction that there was a lack of ambiguity in pre-modernity because, according to the rules of the "old rhetoric", ambiguity was seen as an avoidable error (vitium) and a violation of the dictate of clarity (perspicuitas). The aim of the volume is to re-examine the putative "absence of ambiguity" in the pre-modern era. Is it not possible to find clear examples of deliberately employed (intended) ambiguity in antiquity? Are the oracles and riddles, the Palinode of Stesichoros and Socrates (Phaedrus), the dissoi logoi of rhetoric, the ambiguities of the tragedies all exceptions or do they not indicate a distinct interest in the artistic use of ambiguity? The presentations of the conference, which will include scholars from various philologies, will combine a recourse to theoretical concepts of intended ambiguity with exemplary analyses from the field of pre-modern art and literature.
The Shadow Of An Ass
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Author : Jeffrey P. Ulrich
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2024
The Shadow Of An Ass written by Jeffrey P. Ulrich and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with Drama categories.
Jeffrey Ulrich's The Shadow of an Ass addresses fundamental questions about the reception and aesthetic experience of Apuleius' Metamorphoses, popularly known as The Golden Ass, by situating the novel in a contemporaneous literary and philosophical discourse emerging in the Second Sophistic. This unique Latin novel follows a man who is accidentally turned into a donkey because of his curiosity, viewing the world through a donkey's eyes until he is returned to human form by the Egyptian goddess Isis. In the end, he chooses to become a cult initiate and priest instead of a debased and overindulgent ass. On the one hand, the novel encourages readers to take pleasure in the narrator's experiences, as he relishes food, sex, and forbidden forms of knowledge. Simultaneously, it challenges readers to reconsider their participation in the story by exposing its donkey-narrator as a failed model of heroism and philosophical investigation. Ulrich interprets the Metamorphoses as a locus of philosophical inquiry, positioning the act of reading as a choice of how much to invest in this tale of pleasurable transformation and unanticipated conversion. The Shadow of an Ass further explores how Apuleius, as a North African philosopher translating an originally Greek novel into a Latin idiolect, transforms himself into an intermediary of Platonic philosophy for his Carthaginian audience. Situating the novel in a long history of philosophical and literary conversations, Ulrich suggests that the Metamorphoses anticipates much of the philosophical burlesque we tend to associate with early modern fiction, from Don Quixote to Lewis Carroll.
The Ass Of The Gods Apuleius Golden Ass The Onos Attributed To Lucian And Graeco Roman Metamorphosis Literature
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Author : Kristopher F.B. Fletcher
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-03-20
The Ass Of The Gods Apuleius Golden Ass The Onos Attributed To Lucian And Graeco Roman Metamorphosis Literature written by Kristopher F.B. Fletcher and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
Apuleius’ Golden Ass and the Lucianic Loukios, or the Ass depend on and play with readers’ familiarity with the clear patterns of Greek and Roman stories of metamorphosis. The formulaic nature of these stories suggests that the appearance of a god at the end of the Golden Ass is unsurprising and that the end of the Loukios is more innovative. This context also sheds new light on the function of the Cupid and Psyche story, the meaning of these works’ titles, and the lost Metamorphoseis on which they are both based and of which the Golden Ass is a translation.
Discourse Knowledge And Power In Apuleius Metamorphoses
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Author : Evelyn Adkins
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2022-05-23
Discourse Knowledge And Power In Apuleius Metamorphoses written by Evelyn Adkins and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-23 with History categories.
The first in-depth examination of speech and discourse as tools of characterization in Apuleius' Metamorphoses
The Oxford Handbook Of Roman Philosophy
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Author : Myrto Garani
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2023
The Oxford Handbook Of Roman Philosophy written by Myrto Garani and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with History categories.
The Oxford Handbook of Roman Philosophy provides a thorough exploration of Roman philosophy as a valuable study in its own right. Topics covered include ethnicity, cultural identity, literary originality, the environment, Roman philosophical figures, epistemology, and ethics.
Faulkner S Reception Of Apuleius The Golden Ass In The Reivers
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Author : Vernon L. Provencal
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2020-07-09
Faulkner S Reception Of Apuleius The Golden Ass In The Reivers written by Vernon L. Provencal and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-09 with Literary Collections categories.
Faulkner's final novel, The Reivers, has been gently dismissed by scholars and critics as no more than its subtitle claims, A Reminiscence. Although the new millennium has seen a new appreciation for Faulkner's later novels, The Reivers is still perceived as a slightly fictionalized comic memoir romanticizing the early life of the author in the pre-civil rights American South. This volume takes this dismissal of The Reivers to task for failing to appreciate its employment of the Apuleian narrative of life-altering metamorphosis to offer, as his literary farewell, hope for humanity's self-redemption. Vernon L. Provencal studies the reception of The Golden Ass in The Reivers as comic novels of moral katabasis (wilful descent into the lawless underworld) and providential anabasis (societal and spiritual redemption). As the independent basis of the reception study, The Reivers receives its first ever detailed reading, while The Golden Ass is read anew from the teleological perspective offered by the (undervalued) prophecy that in the end the comic hero would become the book itself.
The Fortunes Of Apuleius And The Golden Ass
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Author : Julia Haig Gaisser
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-06-08
The Fortunes Of Apuleius And The Golden Ass written by Julia Haig Gaisser and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book traces the transmission and reception of one of the most influential novels in Western literature. The Golden Ass, the only ancient Roman novel to survive in its entirety, tells of a young man changed into an ass by magic and his bawdy adventures and narrow escapes before the goddess Isis changes him back again. Its centerpiece is the famous story of Cupid and Psyche. Julia Gaisser follows Apuleius' racy tale from antiquity through the sixteenth century, tracing its journey from roll to codex in fourth-century Rome, into the medieval library of Monte Cassino, into the hands of Italian humanists, into print, and, finally, over the Alps and into translation in Spanish, French, German, and English. She demonstrates that the novel's reception was linked with Apuleius' reputation as a philosopher and the persona he projected in his works. She relates Apuleius and the Golden Ass to a diverse cast of important literary and historical figures--including Augustine, Fulgentius, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Bessarion, Boiardo, and Beroaldo. Paying equal attention to the novel's transmission (how it survived) and its reception (how it was interpreted), she places the work in its many different historical contexts, examining its representation in art, literary imitation, allegory, scholarly commentary, and translation. The volume contains several appendixes, including an annotated list of the manuscripts of the Golden Ass. This book is based on the author's Martin Classical Lectures at Oberlin College in 2000.