Literature and Identity in the Golden Ass of Apuleius /
"The second-century CE novel The Golden Ass, or Metamorphoses, has proven to be both captivating and highly entertaining to the modern reader, but the text also presents the critic with a vast array of interpretive possibilities. In fact, there is little consensus among scholars on the fundamen...
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Columbus :
The Ohio State University Press,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- A sweet poetics. "But I ..." ; The ass and the cicada ; A sweet and misleading whisper ; Between philosophy and entertainment: Astonishment (ut mireris) ; The poetics of the novel ; Lucius of Patrae and Aristides of Miletus
- Old wives' tales and servile pleasures. Entertainment, initiation, aporia and satire ; Dissonances ; Greedy priests ; Isis and her sisters ; Lucius' shaven head ; Horizons of expectation ; An old wives' tale (anilis fabula) ; Paradox, satire, and levels of reading ; Lucius, before and after
- Metamorphoses of genres. Philosophers on the road ; Eyes and ears as criteria for truth ; Lucius and his Sirens ; Readers, listeners, and spectators
- Greece, Rome, Africa. On the road with Lucius ; The reputation of Corinth ; Romanization ; Romanocentrism ; The readership of the novel ; Between Rome and the provinces.