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A Comedy of Storytelling : Theatricality and Narrative in Apuleius' 'Golden Ass'.
HauptbeschreibungCurrent interpretations of Apuleius' 'Golden Ass' cover the entire spectrum from a religious autobiography to an incongruous collection of titillating stories. The goal of this book is to explain the extraordinary polyphony of Apuleius' novel as a product of the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Universitätsverlag Winter,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Titelei; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part 1 Theatricality; 1. The Nonsense of the Mime: The Golden Ass and Popular Theater; 1.1. The Mime's centunculus; 1.2. Mime Plots; 1.3. Mimic Self-Referentiality: Risus mimicus and the Mimesis of the Mime; 2. Contrary to the Story; 2.1. Representational Paradoxes at the Roman Arena; 2.2. The Primary Narrative and the Inserted Tales; Part II Multiple Plotting; 3. Crime, Punishment, and Redemption: Lucius' Life as a Narrative ofMiraculous Healing; 4. Conversion to Philosophy: Lucius' Life as a PhilosophicalBiography.
- 5. De audiendis fabulis: Lucius' Life as a Philosophical Myth6. The Ass from Cymae: Lucius' Life as a Lucianic Satire; 7. The Magic of Rhetoric: Lucius' Life as an Aristophanic Comedy; Part III Narrative; 8. Desultoriae scientiae stilus: From Drama to Narrative; 8.1. The Writer as a Stand-up Comedian; 8.2. Milesian tales; 8.3. Omnis musae mancipium: Petronius' Satyricon; 9. Theatricality and Rhetoric: The Golden Ass and the Second Sophistic; 9.1. Simili stilo: Apuleius' Narrator as a Sophistic Entertainer; 9.2. Varias fabulas conserere: Apuleius' Narrative as a Specimen of Figured Speech.
- 9.3. Acting out paideiaBibliography; Index nominum et rerum; Index locorum.