The Protean Ass

The Protean Ass
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Publisher : OUP Oxford
Total Pages : 568
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ISBN-10 : 9780191527234
ISBN-13 : 0191527238
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Book Synopsis The Protean Ass by : Robert H. F. Carver

Download or read book The Protean Ass written by Robert H. F. Carver and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-12-06 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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


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