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Faulkner’s Reception of Apuleius’ The Golden Ass in The Reivers (Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception) - Softcover

Book 22 of 28: Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception

Provencal, Vernon L.

 
9781350194878: Faulkner’s Reception of Apuleius’ The Golden Ass in The Reivers (Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1350194875 ISBN 13: 9781350194878
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022

Synopsis

Faulkner’s final novel, The Reivers, has been gently dismissed by scholars and critics as no more than its subtitle claims, A Reminiscence. Although the new millennium has seen a new appreciation for Faulkner’s later novels, The Reivers is still perceived as a slightly fictionalized comic memoir romanticizing the early life of the author in the pre-civil rights American South. This volume takes this dismissal of The Reivers to task for failing to appreciate its employment of the Apuleian narrative of life-altering metamorphosis to offer, as his literary farewell, hope for humanity’s self-redemption. Vernon L. Provencal studies the reception of The Golden Ass in The Reivers as comic novels of moral katabasis (wilful descent into the lawless underworld) and providential anabasis (societal and spiritual redemption). As the independent basis of the reception study, The Reivers receives its first ever detailed reading, while The Golden Ass is read anew from the teleological perspective offered by the (undervalued) prophecy that in the end the comic hero would become the book itself.

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About the Author

Vernon L. Provencal is Professor of Classics at Acadia University, Canada. His books include Sophist Kings (Bloomsbury, 2015).

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1350194875
ISBN 13 
9781350194878
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
230