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Apuleius' Metamorphoses
Stefan Tilg
其他書名
A Study in Roman Fiction
出版OUP Oxford, 2014-06-12
主題History / Ancient / RomeHistory / Ancient / GeneralLiterary Collections / Ancient & ClassicalLiterary Criticism / Ancient & Classical
ISBN01910168109780191016813
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ZDSXAwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.