Lusus Iste: Apuleius' MetamorphosesUniversity Press of America, 2003 - 630 páginas The Metamorphoses of Apuleius is a sophisticated literary creation, complex and often perplexing. It continues to elicit widely varying critical comment about both its substance and its style. The prologue to Metamorphoses ends with an exhortation and a promise Lector intende; laetaberis (pay attention, reader; you'll be glad). This monograph, Lusus iste: Apuleius' Metamorphoses, continues the critical game in which Apuleuis invites us to be co-players. It presents further observations of a reader who finds delight in the verbal entertainment, lusus, which Apuleius provides, not simply in the story he tells but also in its complex design and verbal textur |
Contenido
Sermone isto Milesio | 1 |
Questions of Ancestry and Identity | 55 |
Mountains Valleys Plains and Ploughlands | 91 |
Derechos de autor | |
Otras 15 secciones no mostradas
Términos y frases comunes
advena allusion Apol appears Apuleius Aristomenes asinus association Bacchus Book 11 Book 9 Byrrhena Chap Charite Charite's Cicero Clytius color connection context contrast Cupid and Psyche Dea Syria priests death Demeas describes Diophanes dogs earlier echo episode fabula fact figures final Finkelpearl fish four-color palette frame-narrative Geryon goddess Greek Haemus Hanson Heracles Hercules Hermaphroditus imagery initiation instances ironic Isis Kenney kisses later Laws literal Lucius or Ass Lucius-auctor lurore madness magic mention Meroe Metamorphoses Milesius Milo Milo's Mithras motif narrative narrator naviter notes occurs Osiris Ovid Ovid's Pamphile parallel passage Philebus philosophical Photis phrase Plato Plato's pleasure Plutarch points prosapia Psyche story Psyche's Pythagoras Pythias reference relevant Risus robbers Roman Salmacis says scene Schlam sense sentence Sermone isto Milesio significant sisters Socrates suggests tale Thelyphron thematic Theseus Thiasus Thrasyleon Thrasyllus Tlepolemus Venus verbal voluptas Walsh words
Referencias a este libro
Metamorphoses Books IV 28-35, V and VI 1-24: The Tale of ..., Volumen4;Volumen6 Apuleius,Maaike Zimmerman Vista de fragmentos - 2004 |