Afterlife of Apuleius / / Florence Bistagne, Carole Boidin, Raphaële Mouren, editors.

Apuleius' literary and philosophical fortune has been considerable since antiquity, mostly through the reception of The Golden Ass. The aim of this collection of essays is to highlight a few major aspects of this afterlife, from the High Middle Ages to early Romanticism, in the fields of litera...

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Place / Publishing House:London : : University of London Press,, 2021.
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Supplements ; 140
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiv, 182 pages) :; illustrations (some color).
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface and acknowledgements / F. Bistagne, C. Boidin, and R. Mouren
  • Apuleius' travels: historical and geographical diffusion
  • The medieval Ass: re-evaluating the reception of Apuleius in the High Middle Ages / Robert H.F. Carver
  • The White Goddess in Mexico: Apuleius, Isis, and the Virgin of Guadalupe in Latin, Spanish, and Nahuatl sources / Andrew Laird
  • The Ass goes east: Apuleius and orientalism / Carole Boidin
  • The afterlife of Psyche
  • How to tell the story of Cupid and Psyche: from Fulgentius to Galeotto Del Corretto / Julia Haig Gaisser
  • Psyche's textual journey from Apuleius to Boccaccio and Petrarch / Igor Candido
  • An Apuleian masque? Thomas Heywood's Love's Mistress (1634) / Stephen Harrison
  • Echoes of Apuleius' novel in Mary Tighe's Psyche: Romantic imagination and self-fashioning / Regine May
  • A fashionable model? Formal patterns and literary values
  • Apuleius and Martianus Capella: reception, pedagogy, and the dialectics of canon / Ahuvia Kahane.