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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kirichenko, Alexander
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2012.
Subjects:
Apuleius. > Metamorphoses.
Metamorphoses (Apuleius)
Comic, The, in literature.
Role playing in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Classical drama (Comedy) > History and criticism.
Apuleius > Criticism and interpretation.
Apuleius. Metamorphoses.
Literature.
Language and languages.
Comique dans la littérature.
Jeu de rôle dans la littérature.
Narration.
Comédie ancienne > Histoire et critique.
Classical drama (Comedy)
Comic, The, in literature
Role playing in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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