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Princeton University Press 2008 1st ed hardcover Princeton. 2008. Princeton University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780691131368. 20 color illus. 6 halftones. 404 pages. hardcover. keywords: Classicla Studies Roman Literature Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER-This book traces the transmission and reception of one of the most influential novels in Western literature. The Golden Ass, the only ancient Roman novel to survive in its entirety, tells of a young man changed into an ass by magic and his bawdy adventures and narrow escapes before the goddess Isis changes him back again. Its centerpiece is the famous story of Cupid and Psyche. Julia Gaisser follows Apuleius' racy tale from antiquity through the sixteenth century, tracing its journey from roll to codex in fourth-century Rome, into the medieval library of Monte Cassino, into the hands of Italian humanists, into print, and, finally, over the Alps and into translation in Spanish, French, German, and English. She demonstrates that the novel's reception was linked with Apuleius' reputation as a philosopher and the persona he projected in his works. She relates Apuleius and the Golden Ass to a diverse cast of important literary and historical figures--including Augustine, Fulgentius, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Bessarion, Boiardo, and Beroaldo. Paying equal attention to the novel's transmission (how it survived) and its reception (how it was interpreted), she places the work in its many different historical ...

ISBN10: 0691131368, ISBN13: 9780691131368, [publisher: Princeton University Press. 01.2008.] Hardcover 365 p., illustrated. Dust jacket lightly bumped, otherwise in pristine condition, free of markings./ Schutzumschlag leicht bestoßen, sonst in einem tadelosen Zustand, frei von Anstreichungen. - Contents - Chapter 1 - Apuleius: A Celebrity and His Image - Chapter 2 - Exemplary Behavior: The Golden Ass from Late - Antiquity to the Prehumanists - Chapter 3 - A Mixed Reception: Interpreting and Illuminating the Golden Ass in the Fourteenth Century - Chapter 4 - Making an Impression: From Florence to Rome and from Manuscript to Print - Chapter 5 - Telling Tales: The Golden Ass in Ferrara and Mantua - Chapter 6 - Apuleius Redux: Filippo Beroaldo Comments - on the Golden Ass - Chapter 7 - Speaking in Tongues: Translations of the Golden Ass - Conclusion - The Fortunes of Apuleius and the Golden Ass - Appendix 1 - Ancient Readers of Apuleius (ca. 350 to ca. 550 AD) - Appendix 2 - Manuscripts of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses - Appendix 3 - Extant Manuscripts of the Metamorphoses - Written before 1400 - Appendix 4 - The Florentine Connection - Appendix 5 - Adiington and His Sources for Met. ISBN 9780691131368 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 675
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Princeton University Press. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. Date: 2008. Hardcover. 0691131368 . Gift inscription from author to R. E. Fantham on ffep. Light bump to 1 corner. A few correction by Fantham in pencil. Very light shelfwear to DJ. ; This book traces the transmission and reception of one of the most influential novels in Western literature. The Golden Ass, the only ancient Roman novel to survive in its entirety, tells of a young man changed into an ass by magic and his bawdy adventures and narrow escapes before the goddess Isis changes him back again. Its centerpiece is the famous story of Cupid and Psyche. Julia Gaisser follows Apuleius' racy tale from antiquity through the sixteenth century, tracing its journey from roll to codex in fourth-century Rome, into the medieval library of Monte Cassino, into the hands of Italian humanists, into print, and, finally, over the Alps and into translation in Spanish, French, German, and English. She demonstrates that the novel's reception was linked with Apuleius' reputation as a philosopher and the persona he projected in his works. She relates Apuleius and the Golden Ass to a diverse cast of important literary and historical figures--including Augustine, Fulgentius, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Bessarion, Boiardo, and Beroaldo. Paying equal attention to the novel's transmission (how it survived) and its reception (how it was interpreted) , she places the work in its many different historical ...

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