The Human Tragicomedy: The Reception of Apuleius' Golden Ass in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-69583-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 26, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

Reihe: Metaforms

Does the story of Lucius, a curious and lustful young man who is magically transformed into an ass, have anything to teach us today? Does it have a serious, philosophical and religious meaning, or is it just a form of literary play, full of adventures, magic, sex, violence, and religion? This volume studies the reception of the novel in the last hundred years, showing also the most promising and diverse research perspectives for the future. Apuleius claimed that a philosopher must possess a mirror; perhaps, his novel is a mirror for us to look into.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Strózynski, Mateusz

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Lateinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Introduction: Lucius’ Wandering into the New Millennium

Mateusz Strózynski

Part 1: The Sun at Midnight

1 The Ineffable and the Arcane in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses

Nicholas Banner

2 Apuleius’ Metamorphoses: a Jungian Perspective

Jakub Handszu

3 Shame and Glory: C.S. Lewis and the Tale of Cupid and Psyche

Douglas Hedley

Part 2: Divine Comedy

4 Humour and Satire in Book Eleven of The Golden Ass

Warren S. Smith

5 The Divine Joke: C.S. Lewis and The Golden Ass

Mateusz Strózynski

Part 3: Weaving Together Different Tales

6 Lucius’ Games of Politeness

Lukasz Berger

7 The Reception of Apuleius in Italian Theatre and Cinema

Andrea Musio

8 Au hasard, Apuleius? The Uses of The Golden Ass in the Twenty-First Century Novel and Cinema

Mateusz Strózynski

Conclusion: Quiring to the Young-Eyed Cherubins

Mateusz Strózynski

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mateusz Strózynski is Associate Professor in the Institute of Classical Philology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. He is the co-editor, with J.Fiecko, of Adam Mickiewicz, Metaphysical Poems (Brill, 2023) and the author of Plotinus on the Contemplation of the Intelligible World: Faces of Being and Mirrors of Intellect (Cambridge University Press, 2024). He is also founding editor of the online journal Antigone.

Contributors are Nicholas Banner, Jakub Handszu, Douglas Hedley, Warren S. Smith, Mateusz Strózynski, Lukasz Berger, Andrea Musio.