Metamorphosis of language in Apuleius : a study of allusion in the novel
This book differs from previous studies in its scope, its insistence on a variety of approaches, its emphasis on the importance of genre, and its argument that the place of the literary tradition progresses through the book. This is the first attempt to link Apuleius' allusive practices with a consideration of the emergence of the novel and the consequent tensions in generic form. The chapters on Charite, the Phaedraesque stepmother, and Isis represent experimental new directions for the interpretation of Apuleius and literary influence
Print Book, English, ©1998
University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, ©1998
Criticism, interpretation, etc
viii, 241 pages ; 24 cm
9780472108893, 0472108891
37761824
Background and method
Parody
Reading isolated allusions
Sinon : fiction, naïveté, and the audience
Epic, novel, Katabasis
Charite, Dido, and the widow of Ephesus
Phaedra, Dido, and Apuleius' Nouerca
Escape and a new voice
Conclusion