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Apuleius' Metamorphoses - A Study in Roman Fiction (Hardcover)
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Apuleius' Metamorphoses - A Study in Roman Fiction (Hardcover)
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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.
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