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Apuleius' Metamorphoses: A Study in Roman Fiction
Stefan Tilg
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Description for Apuleius' Metamorphoses: A Study in Roman Fiction
Hardcover. This volume reveals how Apuleius' Metamorphoses - the only fully extant Roman novel and a classic of world literature - works as a piece of literature, exploring its poetics and the way in which questions of production and reception are reflected in its text. Num Pages: 204 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
This volume reveals how Apuleius' Metamorphoses - the only fully extant Roman novel and a classic of world literature - works as a piece of literature, exploring its poetics and the way in which questions of production and reception are reflected in its text. Providing a roughly linear reading of key passages, the volume develops an original idea of Apuleius as an ambitious writer led by the literary tradition, rhetoric, and Platonism, and argues that he created what we could call a seriocomic 'philosophical novel' avant la lettre. The author focuses, in particular, on the ways in which Apuleius drew ... Read more
This volume reveals how Apuleius' Metamorphoses - the only fully extant Roman novel and a classic of world literature - works as a piece of literature, exploring its poetics and the way in which questions of production and reception are reflected in its text. Providing a roughly linear reading of key passages, the volume develops an original idea of Apuleius as an ambitious writer led by the literary tradition, rhetoric, and Platonism, and argues that he created what we could call a seriocomic 'philosophical novel' avant la lettre. The author focuses, in particular, on the ways in which Apuleius drew ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
204
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198706830
SKU
V9780198706830
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About Stefan Tilg
Stefan Tilg received his PhD in Classics in Innsbruck, Austria (2003). He was Assistant to the chair of Latin at the University of Bern (2003-2006). Various scholarships brought him to Corpus Christi College, Oxford, the Centre for Hellenic Studies in Washington D.C., and the Klassisch-Philologisches Seminar of the University of Zurich (2006-2010). Currently he is the Director of the Ludwig ... Read more
Reviews for Apuleius' Metamorphoses: A Study in Roman Fiction
Tilg has written a perceptive and valuable book ... he has also put forward new and intriguing suggestions about the relationship of Apuleius' novel to its Greek source and brought new texts to bear in the consideration of the book as a philosophical novel.
Ellen Finkelpearl, Hermathena
Ellen Finkelpearl, Hermathena