The
Protean Ass
The Metamorphoses of Apuleius from
Antiquity to the Renaissance
Robert H. F. Carver
Price: £85.00 (Hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-921786-1
Estimated publication date: November
2007
568 pages, 234x156 mm
Series: Oxford Classical
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- A superbly detailed account of
the reception of a classical text,
combining diachronic and synchronic
perspectives
- Guides readers through Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages to the
Renaissance, tracking the reception
of Apuleius in North Africa, Italy,
France, Germany, and England
- Extensive quotation (with
English translation) from a vast
array of primary sources
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| The
Protean Ass provides the most
comprehensive account (in any language)
of the reception of
The
Golden Ass (or
Metamorphoses ) of Apuleius, the
only work of Latin prose fiction worthy
of the name of 'novel' to survive intact
from the ancient world. Apuleius'
second-century account of the curious
young man who is changed into a donkey
following an affair with a witch's
slave-girl, and undergoes a series of
adventures (involving robbery, adultery,
buggery, and bestiality) before a divine
vision transforms him into a disciple of
the goddess Isis, has delighted,
perplexed, and inspired readers as
diverse as St Augustine, Petrarch,
Boccaccio, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare,
and Milton. Robert H. F. Carver traces
readers' responses to the novel from the
third to the seventeenth centuries in
North Africa, Italy, France, Germany,
and England
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Readership: Scholars and students of
classics; late-antique, medieval, and
Renaissance literature (especially Sidney,
Spenser, and Shakespeare); the novel and prose
fiction; comparative literature; reception
studies.
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Contents |
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Introduction
1.
The
Metamorphoses of Apuleius: From
Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages
2.
Apuleius in the High Middle Ages
3.
Asinus Redivivus: The Recovery of
The Golden Ass
4.
The
Inky Ass: Apuleius in the Age of
Print (1469-1500)
5.
The
Antiquarian Ass: The Hypnerotomachia
Poliphili (1499
6.
The
Academical Ass: Apuleius and the
Northern Renaissance
7.
The
Golden Asse of William Adlington
(1566)
8.
After
Adlington: Apuleius in England
(1566-1660)
9.
The
Arcadian Ass: Sir Philip Sidney and
Apuleius
10.
Psyche's Daughter: Pleasure and The
Faerie Queene
11.
Shakespeare's Bottom and Apuleius'
Ass
Epilogue
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Authors, editors, and contributors |
Robert
H. F. Carver, Lecturer in
Renaissance Literature, Department of
English Studies, University of Durham
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