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The Protean Ass: The Metamorphoses of Apuleius from Antiquity to the Renaissance (Oxford Classical Monographs) - Hardcover

Book 74 of 134: Oxford Classical Monographs

Carver, Robert H. F.

 
9780199217861: The Protean Ass: The Metamorphoses of Apuleius from Antiquity to the Renaissance (Oxford Classical Monographs)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0199217866 ISBN 13: 9780199217861
Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2007

Synopsis

The Protean Ass provides the most comprehensive account (in any language) of the reception of The Golden Ass (or Metamorphoses) of Apuleius, the only work of Latin prose fiction worthy of the name of 'novel' to survive intact from the ancient world. Apuleius' second-century account of the curious young man who is changed into a donkey following an affair with a witch's slave-girl, and undergoes a series of adventures (involving robbery, adultery, buggery, and bestiality) before a divine vision transforms him into a disciple of the goddess Isis, has delighted, perplexed, and inspired readers as diverse as St Augustine, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton. Robert H. F. Carver traces readers' responses to the novel from the third to the seventeenth centuries in North Africa, Italy, France, Germany, and England

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About the Author

Robert H. F. Carver is Lecturer in Renaissance Literature, Department of English Studies, University of Durham.

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Publisher
OUP Oxford
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0199217866
ISBN 13 
9780199217861
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
568