The Protean Ass : The Metamorphoses of Apuleius from Antiquity to the Renaissance
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Hardback or Cased Book
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
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24.00 x 16.20 x 3.60 cms
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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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