Framing the Ass
Literary Texture in Apuleius' Metamorphoses
Published on 13. June 2013
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-0-19-960268-1 (ISBN)
Description
Complementing Harrison's previous volume, Apuleius: A Latin Sophist, this book studies one of the few extant Latin novels from the Roman Empire, Apuleius' Metamorphoses or Golden Ass. Harrison shows that this work is one of remarkable literary complexity, playing off other classical forms, especially the related narrative form of the epic. The volume traces some of the history of the novel's criticism and offers a detailed analysis of its key sections and issues, demonstrating in detail the literary sophistication and complex intergeneric intertextuality which is the key feature of Apuleius' novel.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
516 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-960268-1 (9780199602681)
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Person
S.J.Harrison is Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Oxford. He is author of books on Vergil, Horace, and Apuleius, and of a range of pieces on classical reception in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Content
PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; APULEIAN CONTEXTS; NOVEL AND EPIC