Apuleius' Metamorphoses | A Study in Roman Fiction

Stefan Tilg

ISBN 10: 0198706839 / ISBN 13: 9780198706830

Editore: Oxford University Press(UK), 2014

Apuleius' Metamorphoses | A Study in Roman Fiction | Stefan Tilg | Buch | Gebunden | Englisch | 2014 | Oxford University Press(UK) | EAN 9780198706830 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand. Codice articolo 105522785

Riassunto:

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.

Informazioni sull'autore: Stefan Tilg received his PhD in Classics in Innsbruck, Austria (2003). He was Assistant to the chair of Latin at the University of Bern (2003-2006). Various scholarships brought him to Corpus Christi College, Oxford, the Centre for Hellenic Studies in Washington D.C., and the Klassisch-Philologisches Seminar of the University of Zurich (2006-2010). Currently he is the Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Literature in Innsbruck and Privatdozent at the University of Zurich. His main research topics have been the ancient novel and Neo-Latin drama. He is the author of Chariton of Aphrodisias and the Invention of the Greek Love Novel (OUP 2010).

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Titolo: Apuleius' Metamorphoses | A Study in Roman ...
Casa editrice: Oxford University Press(UK)
Data di pubblicazione: 2014
Legatura: Buch
Condizione: Neu