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1 online resource (261 pages) |
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Cover; Titelei; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part 1 Theatricality; 1. The Nonsense of the Mime: The Golden Ass and Popular Theater; 1.1. The Mime's centunculus; 1.2. Mime Plots; 1.3. Mimic Self-Referentiality: Risus mimicus and the Mimesis of the Mime; 2. Contrary to the Story; 2.1. Representational Paradoxes at the Roman Arena; 2.2. The Primary Narrative and the Inserted Tales; Part II Multiple Plotting; 3. Crime, Punishment, and Redemption: Lucius' Life as a Narrative ofMiraculous Healing; 4. Conversion to Philosophy: Lucius' Life as a PhilosophicalBiography |
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5. De audiendis fabulis: Lucius' Life as a Philosophical Myth6. The Ass from Cymae: Lucius' Life as a Lucianic Satire; 7. The Magic of Rhetoric: Lucius' Life as an Aristophanic Comedy; Part III Narrative; 8. Desultoriae scientiae stilus: From Drama to Narrative; 8.1. The Writer as a Stand-up Comedian; 8.2. Milesian tales; 8.3. Omnis musae mancipium: Petronius' Satyricon; 9. Theatricality and Rhetoric: The Golden Ass and the Second Sophistic; 9.1. Simili stilo: Apuleius' Narrator as a Sophistic Entertainer; 9.2. Varias fabulas conserere: Apuleius' Narrative as a Specimen of Figured Speech |
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9.3. Acting out paideiaBibliography; Index nominum et rerum; Index locorum |
| Summary |
HauptbeschreibungCurrent interpretations of Apuleius' 'Golden Ass' cover the entire spectrum from a religious autobiography to an incongruous collection of titillating stories. The goal of this book is to explain the extraordinary polyphony of Apuleius' novel as a product of the 2nd century CE context, in which elite culture (philosophy and sophistic oratory) and popular entertainment not only share the same venues and appeal to the same audiences but also engage in active exchange of subject matter and histrionic techniques. The book argues that Apuleius' narrative represents a mosaic of disc |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Apuleius. Metamorphoses.
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Metamorphoses (Apuleius) fast |
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Comic, The, in literature.
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Role playing in literature.
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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Classical drama (Comedy) -- History and criticism
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Classical drama (Comedy)
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Comic, The, in literature
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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Role playing in literature
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
3825373088 |
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9783825373085 |
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