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Apuleius’s Golden Ass

Apuleius’s Golden Ass. The Tale 2015/2016 – Seminar Groups 2 and 3. Structure of the seminar. Genre: the novel Translations The Golden Ass - Break - Critical readings 1 and 2 Assignments for next week. A novel ?. Towards a definition of the genre Extension? Fiction/non fiction ?

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Apuleius’s Golden Ass

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  1. Apuleius’s Golden Ass The Tale 2015/2016 – Seminar Groups 2 and 3

  2. Structure of the seminar • Genre: the novel • Translations • The Golden Ass - Break - • Critical readings 1 and 2 • Assignments for next week

  3. A novel? Towards a definition of the genre • Extension? • Fiction/non fiction? • Setting? • Themes? • Plot? • Prose/verse?

  4. Origins and related genres • Epic poems. • Romance. In prose! Chivalric fiction, Arthurian stories, etc. • Novella. Originally, multiple stories (cycles). Jokes, tales. Boccaccio, Chaucer, etc. Today: extension is the criterion. • Picaresque. Contrast to the epic hero, the knight, etc. Low-class antihero who survives through his wits in a sordid world. Heretic and humorous. Lazarillo de Tormes (1554). • 1605: Don Quixote. First modern novel.

  5. Translations http://www.jnanam.net/golden-ass/ga-5.html • William Adlington (1566 – or 1639?) • Pater (1885) • Bohn’s Library (1902) • Lindsay (1932) • Graves (1950) • Walsh (1990) • Kenney (1998) • Ruden (2011) Why do translations ‘age’ and originals do not?

  6. The Golden Ass • Themes • Books 1, 2, 3 • Contents: Aristomenes, Milo’s House, Telyphron, Festival of Laughter, transformation of Lucius. • Resonance with other tales. • Books 4-6 • Contents: the bandits’ cave, Cupid and Psyche. • Resonance with other tales.

  7. Critical readings • James T. Svendsen, ‘Narrative Techniques in Apuleius’ “Golden Ass”’, Pacific Coast Philology, Vol. 18, No. 1/2 (Nov. 1983), pp. 23-29 • David Walter Leinweber, ‘Witchcraft and Lamiae in “The Golden Ass”’, Folklore, Vol. 105 (1994), pp. 77-82

  8. Leinweber–Lamiae • Thesis of theessay? • Women in myths and literature • femme fatale • lonelywomanwith no children • oldhag • Foundationforthis idea withinThe Golden Ass? • Links withvampirism and laterEuropeanliterarygenres(whichgenres? Examples). • Themes in common: • blood • thresholdmyth • hypnosis • lust • shape-shifting

  9. Svendsen–Narrativetechniques • Thesis of theessay? • Fourmainnarrativedevices • Tale-within-a-tale • Directspeech of theparticipants • Descriptivedigression • Physicalelementorfeature • Elaborateexcursusonartwork • Foreshadowing • Threetechiniques of arrangement • Juxtapositionormontage. ‘Free andmusicalstructuring’ • Framedsequence • Eventspresented in triads

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