Apuleius'' Metamorphoses : A Study in Roman Fiction

Name: Apuleius'' Metamorphoses
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780198706830
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ISBN: 9780198706830

by Stefan Tilg

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 0198706839

ISBN-13 9780198706830

Publisher Oxford University Press

Imprint Oxford University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jun 12th, 2014

Print length 204 Pages

Weight 380 grams

Dimensions 22.00 x 14.80 x 1.70 cms

Product Classification: Ancient Greece BCE period – Protohistory Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval Literary studies: classical, early & medieval Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

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This volume reveals how Apuleius' Metamorphoses - the only fully extant Roman novel and a classic of world literature - works as a piece of literature, exploring its poetics and the way in which questions of production and reception are reflected in its text.

This volume reveals how Apuleius'' Metamorphoses - the only fully extant Roman novel and a classic of world literature - works as a piece of literature, exploring its poetics and the way in which questions of production and reception are reflected in its text. Providing a roughly linear reading of key passages, the volume develops an original idea of Apuleius as an ambitious writer led by the literary tradition, rhetoric, and Platonism, and argues that he created what we could call a seriocomic ''philosophical novel'' avant la lettre. The author focuses, in particular, on the ways in which Apuleius drew attention to his achievement and introduced the Greek ass story to Roman literature. Thus, the volume also sheds new light on the forms and the literary and intellectual potential of the genre of the ancient novel.

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