Framing the Ass : Literary Texture in Apuleius' Metamorphoses

Name: Framing the Ass
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780199602681
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ISBN: 9780199602681

by S. J. Harrison

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 0199602689

ISBN-13 9780199602681

Publisher Oxford University Press

Imprint Oxford University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jun 13th, 2013

Print length 304 Pages

Weight 494 grams

Dimensions 22.10 x 14.50 x 2.30 cms

Product Classification: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

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This book studies one of the few novels from the Roman Empire, Apuleius' Metamorphoses or Golden Ass. Harrison shows that this work is one of remarkable literary complexity. The volume traces some of the history of the novel's criticism and offers a detailed analysis of its key sections and issues.

Complementing Harrison''s previous volume, Apuleius: A Latin Sophist, this book studies one of the few extant Latin novels from the Roman Empire, Apuleius'' Metamorphoses or Golden Ass. Harrison shows that this work is one of remarkable literary complexity, playing off other classical forms, especially the related narrative form of the epic. The volume traces some of the history of the novel''s criticism and offers a detailed analysis of its key sections and issues, demonstrating in detail the literary sophistication and complex intergeneric intertextuality which is the key feature of Apuleius'' novel.

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