The Fortunes of Apuleius and the Golden Ass The Fortunes of Apuleius and the Golden Ass
Martin Classical Lectures

The Fortunes of Apuleius and the Golden Ass

A Study in Transmission and Reception

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Description de l’éditeur

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.

GENRE
Fiction et littérature
SORTIE
2021
8 juin
LANGUE
EN
Anglais
LONGUEUR
408
Pages
ÉDITEUR
Princeton University Press
VENDEUR
Princeton University Press
TAILLE
22,8
 Mo

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