The Golden Ass, Or, A Book of Changes

The Golden Ass, Or, A Book of Changes PDF Author: Apuleius
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 1603843280
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 325

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Book Description
Relihan uses alliteration and assonance, rhythm and rhyme, the occasional archaism, the rare neologism, and devices of punctuation and typography, to create a sparkling, luxurious, and readable translation that reproduces something of the linguistic and comic effects of the original Latin. The general Introduction is a masterpiece of clarity, orienting the reader in matters of authorship, narration, genre, religion, structure and style. A generous and browsable index, select bibliography, and maps are included.

The Golden Ass, Or, A Book of Changes

The Golden Ass, Or, A Book of Changes PDF Author: Apuleius
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 1603843280
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 325

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Book Description
Relihan uses alliteration and assonance, rhythm and rhyme, the occasional archaism, the rare neologism, and devices of punctuation and typography, to create a sparkling, luxurious, and readable translation that reproduces something of the linguistic and comic effects of the original Latin. The general Introduction is a masterpiece of clarity, orienting the reader in matters of authorship, narration, genre, religion, structure and style. A generous and browsable index, select bibliography, and maps are included.

The Fortunes of Apuleius and the Golden Ass

The Fortunes of Apuleius and the Golden Ass PDF Author: Julia Haig Gaisser
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691131368
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 406

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This book traces the transmission and reception of one of the most influential novels in Western literature. The Golden Ass, the only ancient Roman novel to survive in its entirety, tells of a young man changed into an ass by magic and his bawdy adventures and narrow escapes before the goddess Isis changes him back again. Its centerpiece is the famous story of Cupid and Psyche. Julia Gaisser follows Apuleius' racy tale from antiquity through the sixteenth century, tracing its journey from roll to codex in fourth-century Rome, into the medieval library of Monte Cassino, into the hands of Italian humanists, into print, and, finally, over the Alps and into translation in Spanish, French, German, and English. She demonstrates that the novel's reception was linked with Apuleius' reputation as a philosopher and the persona he projected in his works. She relates Apuleius and the Golden Ass to a diverse cast of important literary and historical figures--including Augustine, Fulgentius, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Bessarion, Boiardo, and Beroaldo. Paying equal attention to the novel's transmission (how it survived) and its reception (how it was interpreted), she places the work in its many different historical contexts, examining its representation in art, literary imitation, allegory, scholarly commentary, and translation. The volume contains several appendixes, including an annotated list of the manuscripts of the Golden Ass. This book is based on the author's Martin Classical Lectures at Oberlin College in 2000.

The Afterlife of Apuleius

The Afterlife of Apuleius PDF Author: Florence Bistagne
Publisher: Institute of Classical Studies
ISBN: 9781905670888
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Preface and acknowledgements / F. Bistagne, C. Boidin, and R. Mouren -- Apuleius' travels: historical and geographical diffusion -- The medieval Ass: re-evaluating the reception of Apuleius in the High Middle Ages / Robert H.F. Carver -- The White Goddess in Mexico: Apuleius, Isis, and the Virgin of Guadalupe in Latin, Spanish, and Nahuatl sources / Andrew Laird -- The Ass goes east: Apuleius and orientalism / Carole Boidin -- The afterlife of Psyche -- How to tell the story of Cupid and Psyche: from Fulgentius to Galeotto Del Corretto / Julia Haig Gaisser -- Psyche's textual journey from Apuleius to Boccaccio and Petrarch / Igor Candido -- An Apuleian masque? Thomas Heywood's Love's Mistress (1634) / Stephen Harrison -- Echoes of Apuleius' novel in Mary Tighe's Psyche: Romantic imagination and self-fashioning / Regine May -- A fashionable model? Formal patterns and literary values -- Apuleius and Martianus Capella: reception, pedagogy, and the dialectics of canon / Ahuvia Kahane.

Joyce's Book of Memory

Joyce's Book of Memory PDF Author: John S. Rickard
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822321705
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Book Description
DIVDiscusses Ulysses arguing that through the operation of memory, it mimics the working of the human mind and achieves its status as one of the most intellectual achievements of the 20th century./div

Trans/Formations

Trans/Formations PDF Author: Marcella Althaus-Reid
Publisher: SCM Press
ISBN: 0334049067
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Book Description
Trans/formations is a new addition to "SCM's Controversies in Contextual Theology" series. Like anything coming from Marcella Althaus-Reid and Lisa Isherwood, it is controversial and challenging as well as highly original. The book will: make visible a range of trans lived experience [transgendered and transsexual], offer theological reflection on these experiences, create challenging theology from this experiential base, and provide a resource for churches and theology students not to date available. It includes an excellent range of contributors, including Elizabeth Stuart and Virginia Ramey Mollenkott. This is a valuable addition to reading lists of courses on religion, gender and the body.

The Golden Age of Death

The Golden Age of Death PDF Author: Amber Benson
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0425256154
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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Meet Amber Benson's "authentically original creation" (Locus)... My name is Calliope Reaper-Jones (Callie to my friends). I’m Death’s Daughter and—as of very recently—the (reluctant) head of my father’s company, Death, Inc. I was gradually learning how to be a businesswoman. Had the power suits and shoes down, though the day to day was slow going. Then I was blindsided by Enemies Unknown and sent off to I-don’t-know-where. Not a good thing. Now not only must my friends and family be frantic, but without a CEO, Death, Inc., can’t function. With the newly deceased left free to roam the Earth, it’s the zombie apocalypse come true. I’ve got to get back—for my sake and the sake of, oh, all humanity…

Space in the Ancient Novel

Space in the Ancient Novel PDF Author: Michael Paschalis
Publisher: Barkhuis
ISBN: 9080739022
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 207

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Book Description
This special issue of Ancient Narrative Supplementum 1, entitled 'Space in the Ancient Novel', brings together a collection of revised papers, originally presented at the International conference under the same title organized by the Department of Philology (Division of Classics) of the University of Crete and held in Rethymnon, on May 14-15, 2001. This conference inaugurated what is hoped to become a new series of biennial International meetings on the Ancient Novel (RICAN, Rethymnon International Conferences on the Ancient Novel) which aspires to continue the reputable tradition of the Groningen Colloquia on the Novel, established by Heinz Hofmann and Maaike Zimmerman. Ancient Narrative Supplementum 1 includes two additional contributions by Catherine Connors and Judith Perkins, both originally presented in ICAN 2000 at Groningen in July 25-30, 2000 and included here in revised form, and an article by Stelios Panayotakis, which closely relates to the theme of the Rethymnon conference.

Paideia at Play

Paideia at Play PDF Author: Werner Riess
Publisher: Barkhuis
ISBN: 9077922415
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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Book Description
Paidea, the yearning for, and display of knowledge, reached its height as a cultural concept in the works of the Second Sophistic, an elite literary and philosophical movement seeking to ape the style and achievements of the 5th and 4th centuries BC. A crucial element in the display of paidea was an ability to mix the witty and playful with the serious and instructive. The Second Sophistic is known as a Greek phenomenon, but these essays ask how the Latin author Apuleius fitted into this framework, and created a distinctively latin expression of paidea, focusing on the elements of playfulness at its heart.

White Fur

White Fur PDF Author: Jardine Libaire
Publisher: Hogarth Press
ISBN: 0451497929
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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"When Elise Perez meets Jamey Hyde on a desolate winter afternoon, fate implodes, and neither of their lives will ever be the same. Although they are next-door neighbors in New Haven, they come from different worlds. Elise grew up in a housing project without a father and didn't graduate from high school; Jamey is a junior at Yale, heir to a private investment bank fortune and beholden to high family expectations. Nevertheless, the attraction is instant, and what starts out as sexual obsession turns into something greater, stranger, and impossible to ignore."--

The Tale of Cupid and Psyche

The Tale of Cupid and Psyche PDF Author: Apuleius
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 1603841148
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Is Cupid and Psyche a romance, a folktale, a Platonic allegory of the nature of the soul, a Jungian tale of individuation, or an archetypal dream? This volume provides Joel Relihan's lively translation of this best known section of Apuleius' Golden Ass, some useful and illustrative parallels, and an engaging discussion of what to make of this classic story.