Cupid and Psyche : : The Reception of Apuleius’ Love Story since 1600 /

Cupid and Psyche : : The Reception of Apuleius’ Love Story since 1600 / / ed. by Regine May, Stephen J. Harrison.

Apuleius’ tale of Cupid and Psyche has been popular since it was first written in the second century CE as part of his Latin novel Metamorphoses. Often treated as a standalone text, Cupid and Psyche has given rise to treatments in the last 400 years as diverse as plays, masques, operas, poems, paint...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
MitwirkendeR:
Andreadakis, Zacharias,
Benson, Geoffrey C.,
Carver, Robert H. F.,
Drews, Friedemann,
Gaisser, Julia Haig,
Harrison, Stephen,
James, Paula,
Leidl, Christoph,
Maurice, Lisa,
May, Regine,
Müller, Hendrik,
O’Brien, Maeve,
Paschalis, Michael,
Pasetti, Lucia,
Provencal, Vernon L.,
Ragno, Tiziana,
Ranger, Holly,
Reitz, Christiane,
Ruggeri, Luca,
Schultze, Clemence,
Siegel, Janice,
Simard, Jared A.,
HerausgeberIn:
Harrison, Stephen J.,
May, Regine,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Trends in Classics – Pathways of Reception , 1
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XII, 466 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • List of contributors
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • I. Baroque and the Influence of La Fontaine
  • ‘Del soffrir degli affanni è dolce il fine’. Ancient myth and comic drama in G.F. Fusconi’s libretto (with G.F. Loredano and P. Michiel) for F. Cavalli, Amore innamorato (1642)
  • Apuleius at the court of Louis XIV. Psyché (1671, 1678) and its English version (1675)
  • How to use a wallpaper. Psyché et Cupidon—notice explicative
  • Psyche in the salon. French interior decoration in the eighteenth century
  • II. Romanticism and Philosophy
  • ‘Pensive pleasures’ in prose and poetry. Apuleius, Mary Tighe and eighteenth-century Ireland
  • The Platonic Ass: Thomas Taylor’s Cupid and Psyche in Context (1795–1822)
  • Keats’s ‘Ode to Psyche’. Psyche as poetry and inspiration
  • Sir Walter Scott’s Kenilworth and Apuleius’ tale of Cupid and Psyche
  • Kierkegaard as a reader of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses
  • Robert Bridges’ Eros and Psyche and its models
  • III. Fin de Siècle and Psychology
  • From Psyche to psyche. The interiorisation of Apuleius’ fabella in D’Annunzio, Pascoli, and Savinio
  • Between Symbolism and Popular Culture. Cupid and Psyche in Fin de siècle Book Illustration
  • Psyche the psychotic. Cupid and Psyche in Dr. Franz Riklin’s Wishfulfilment and Symbolism in Fairy Tales
  • Psyche and Cupid in the Novels of Charlotte M. Yonge and Sylvia Townsend Warner
  • IV. Twentieth Century and Modernism
  • Eudora Welty’s The Robber Bridegroom. Cupid and Psyche on the Natchez Trace
  • Cupid & Psyche and C.S. Lewis’ Till We Have Faces. A Christian-Platonic metamorphosis
  • Faulkner’s reception(s) of Apuleius’ Cupid and Psyche in The Reivers
  • ‘I have tried to be blind in love’. Psyche and the quest for feminine poetic autonomy in Sylvia Plath’s House of Eros
  • V. New Audiences
  • Cupid and Psyche for children
  • Cupid and Psyche on stage in the 21st century
  • Undertones of Apuleius’ Cupid and Psyche in Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth
  • Beauty and the Beast as a myth and metaphor in the contemporary world. Looking forward with Apuleius’ fable of Cupid and Psyche
  • List of Figures
  • Index

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