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Literature And Identity In The Golden Ass Of Apuleius Luca Graverini

Name: Literature And Identity In The Golden Ass Of Apuleius Luca Graverini
SKU: BELL-33392834
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Publisher: Ohio State University Press

File Extension: PDF

File size: 2.48 MB

Pages: 239

Author: Luca Graverini

ISBN: 9780814211915, 0814211917

Language: English

Year: 2012

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Literature And Identity In The Golden Ass Of Apuleius Luca Graverini by Luca Graverini 9780814211915, 0814211917 instant download after payment.

Literature and Identity in TheGolden Ass of Apuleius is the first English translation of a work published in 2007 as Le Metamorfosi di Apuleio: Letteratura e identità, by Luca Graverini. The second-century CE novel The Golden Ass, or Metamorphoses, has proven to be both captivating and highly entertaining to the modern reader, but the text also presents the critic with a vast array of interpretive possibilities. In fact, there is little consensus among scholars on the fundamental significance of Apuleius' novel: is it simply a form of narrative entertainment, or does it represent some sort of religious or philosophical propaganda? Can it be interpreted as a satire of fatuous belief in otherworldly powers, or is it an utterly aporetic text? Graverini begins by setting TheGolden Ass in its ancient literary context. Apuleius' playful defiance of generic conventions represents a substantial literary innovation, but he is also taking part in a tradition of narrative and satirical literature that typically featured experimentation with genre. The interplay of generic elements found in The Golden Ass reflects the complexity of the author's cultural identity: Apuleius was a Roman North African who had traveled widely throughout the Mediterranean and enjoyed an extensive education in both Greek and Latin. Graverini concludes with a study of the complex interaction of these three dimensions of Apuleius' identity (African, Roman, and Greek), and investigates what the narrative can tell us about the culture of its readership. These cultural interactions affirm that The Golden Ass aims to delight its readers as well as to exhort them to religion and philosophy. Ben Lee's superb new translation will make Graverini's groundbreaking study available to a much wider scholarly readership.