The Human Tragicomedy: The Reception of Apuleius Golden Ass in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Century (Metaforms, 26)
ISBN 10: 9004695834 ISBN 13: 9789004695832
Published by Brill Academic Pub, 2024
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Does the story of Lucius, a curious and lustful young man who is magically transformed into an ass, have anything to teach us today? Does it have a serious, philosophical and religious meaning, or is it just a form of literary play, full of adventures, magic, sex, violence, and religion? This volume studies the reception of the novel in the last hundred years, showing also the most promising and diverse research perspectives for the future. Apuleius claimed that a philosopher must possess a mirror; perhaps, his novel is a mirror for us to look into.
About the Author:
Mateusz Stróżyński is Associate Professor in the Institute of Classical Philology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. He is the co-editor, with J.Fiećko, of Adam Mickiewicz, Metaphysical Poems (Brill, 2023) and the author of Plotinus on the Contemplation of the Intelligible World: Faces of Being and Mirrors of Intellect (Cambridge University Press, 2024). He is also founding editor of the online journal Antigone.
Contributors are Nicholas Banner, Jakub Handszu, Douglas Hedley, Warren S. Smith, Mateusz Stróżyński, Łukasz Berger, Andrea Musio.
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Title: The Human Tragicomedy: The Reception of ...
Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
Publication Date: 2024
Binding: hardcover
Condition: Fine