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Intende, lector : echoes of myth, religion and ritual in the ancient novel /
Despite the recent and intensified scholarly interest in the field of myth and ritual, inquiry into major shifts in mythical and ritual poetics is still in a preliminary stage. The essays in this collection advance our understanding considerably as they probe the intersections of myth and ritual wit...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter,
[2013]
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| Colección: | MythosEikonPoiesis ;
Bd. 6. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction; Roundtable Myth and the Novel; Myth and the Novel: Introductory Remarks and Comments on the Roundtable Discussion; Myth in the Novel: Some Observations; The Literary Myth in the Novel; Myths in the Novel: Gender, Violence and Power; Novel and Mythology
- Contribution to a Round Table; Greek Novel and Local Myth; Mythical Repertoire and Its Functions in Apuleius' Metamorphoses; Storyline, Poetics and Religion; Love, Mysteries and Literary Tradition: New Experiences and Old Frames; The Tale of a Dream: Oneiros and Mythos in the Greek Novel.
- From Mystery to Initiation: A Mytho-Ritual Poetics of Love and Sex in the Ancient Novel
- even in Apuleius' Golden Ass?From the Legend of Cupid and Psyche to the Novel of Mélusine: Myth, Novel and Twentieth Century Adaptations; Apuleius and Cupid and Psyche: Anthropological, Christian and Philosophical Perspectives; Puella Virgo: Rites of Passage in Apuleius' Metamorphoses; Gnostic Variations on the Tale of Cupid and Psyche; Apuleius and Christianity: The Novelist-Philosopher in front of a New Religion; Ritual, Myth and Intertextuality.
- Donkey Gone to Hell: A Katabasis Motif in Apuleius' MetamorphosesIphigenia Revisited: Heliodorus' Aethiopica and the 'Der Tod und das Mädchen' Pattern; 'Non humana viscera sed centies sestertium comesse' (Petr. Sat. 141,7): Philomela and the Cannibal Heredipetae in the Crotonian Section of Petronius' Satyricon; Religious Imagery, Cult, Mystery and Art; False Fortuna: Religious Imagery and the Painting-Gallery Episode in the Satyricon; The Bees of Artemis Ephesia and the Apocalyptic Scene in Joseph and Aseneth; Magic, Comic Reversal and Healing.
- Shamans and Charlatans: Magic, Mixups, Literary Memory in Apuleius' Golden Ass Book 3Lucius's Rose: Symbolic or Sympathetic Cure?; General Index; Index locorum; About the Authors.