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Détails
| Personne nommée : | Apuleius.; Apuleius <Madaurensis> |
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| Type d’ouvrage : | Ressource Internet |
| Format : | Livre, Ressource Internet |
| Tous les auteurs / collaborateurs : |
Julia Haig Gaisser |
| ISBN : | 9780691131368 0691131368 |
| Numéro OCLC : | 137246017 |
| Prix : | Winner of American Philological Association: C.J. Goodwin Award of Merit 2009. |
| Description : | xiii, 365 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm. |
| Contenu : | Apuleius : a celebrity and his image -- Exemplary behavior : the Golden Ass from late antiquity to the prehumanists -- A mixed reception : interpreting and illuminating the Golden Ass in the fourteenth century -- Making an impression : from Florence to Rome and from manuscript to print -- Telling tales : the Golden Ass in Ferrara and Mantua -- Apuleius redux : Filippo Beroaldo comments on the Golden Ass -- Speaking in tongues : translations of the Golden Ass -- The fortunes of Apuleius and the Golden Ass. |
| Titre de collection : | Martin classical lectures (Unnumbered)., New series. |
| Responsabilité : | Julia Haig Gaisser. |
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Résumé :
Critiques
Synopsis de l’éditeur
With a graceful style and an immense knowledge of the vicissitudes of the story, Gaisser traces the manuscripts that carried The Golden Ass through the Middle Ages and into the Renaissance; the editions and translations that followed; and the ways in which readers interpreted, imitated, and adapted it. The result is a remarkable work of scholarship: detailed and learned, but accessible to the general reader with an interest in the fate of a brilliant book over the course of two millennia. -- Konstan, Brown University, for "CHOICE Gaisser has done all students of Apuleius a profound service in a book that is not only a model for reception studies but will also be a standard reference in Apuleian studies for at least a generation. -- Joel C. Relihan, New England Classical Journal This valuable book provides a fascinating perspective for comparativists on the nature of early modern exegesis. More importantly, it offers an invigorating re-evaluation of an enigmatic author whom many Latinists see only in the context of the time in which he lived--a context which has been constructed and constrained by the myopias of early-twentieth-century classical scholarship. -- Andrew Laird, European Legacy Lire la suite...
