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基本説明
A full account of the reception of the second-century prose fiction The Golden Ass (or Metamorphoses) of Apuleius, which has intrigued 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.
Full Description
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
Contents
Introduction ; 1. The Metamorphoses of Apuleius: From Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages ; 2. Apuleius in the High Middle Ages ; 3. Asinus Redivivus: The Recovery of The Golden Ass ; 4. The Inky Ass: Apuleius in the Age of Print (1469-1500) ; 5. The Antiquarian Ass: The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1499 ; 6. The Academical Ass: Apuleius and the Northern Renaissance ; 7. The Golden Asse of William Adlington (1566) ; 8. After Adlington: Apuleius in England (1566-1660) ; 9. The Arcadian Ass: Sir Philip Sidney and Apuleius ; 10. Psyche's Daughter: Pleasure and The Faerie Queene ; 11. Shakespeare's Bottom and Apuleius' Ass ; Epilogue



