The Protean Ass : The Metamorphoses of Apuleius from Antiquity to the Renaissance

Name: The Protean Ass
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780199217861
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ISBN: 9780199217861

by Robert H. F. Carver

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Format Hardback

Book Series Oxford Classical Monographs

ISBN-10 0199217866

ISBN-13 9780199217861

Publisher Oxford University Press

Imprint Oxford University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Dec 6th, 2007

Print length 568 Pages

Weight 980 grams

Dimensions 24.00 x 16.20 x 3.60 cms

Product Classification: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

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A full account of the reception of the second-century prose fiction The Golden Ass (or Metamorphoses) of Apuleius, which has intrigued readers as diverse as St Augustine, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton. Robert H. F. Carver traces readers' responses to the novel from the third to the seventeenth centuries.

The Protean Ass provides the most comprehensive account (in any language) of the reception of The Golden Ass (or Metamorphoses) of Apuleius, the only work of Latin prose fiction worthy of the name of ''novel'' to survive intact from the ancient world. Apuleius'' second-century account of the curious young man who is changed into a donkey following an affair with a witch''s slave-girl, and undergoes a series of adventures (involving robbery, adultery, buggery, and bestiality) before a divine vision transforms him into a disciple of the goddess Isis, has delighted, perplexed, and inspired readers as diverse as St Augustine, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton. Robert H. F. Carver traces readers'' responses to the novel from the third to the seventeenth centuries in North Africa, Italy, France, Germany, and England

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