Auctor & actor a narratological reading of Apuleius's Golden Ass
Addressed to readers of modern literature as well as to those interested in Greco-Roman literature and in religious history, "Auctor and Actor" examines Apuleius's "The Golden Ass" as an early example of self-consciousness in narrative. Entering into the spirit of the novel&...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley ; London :
University of California Press
imp. 1991
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- The question of reading
- Part I: Truth
- The interpretation of tales
- The scrupulous reader
- The contract
- Interlude: Socrates in Motley
- Part II: Consequences
- The duplicities of Auctor/Actor
- The prologue as conundrum
- The text questions, the reader answers
- Part III: Conjectures
- Parody lost and regained
- Isis and Aesop
- The gilding of the Ass.
