Description |
1 online resource (ix, 319 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
MythosEikonPoiesis ; Band 6 |
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MythosEikonPoiesis ; Bd. 6.
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Contents |
Introduction; Roundtable Myth and the Novel; Myth and the Novel: Introductory Remarks and Comments on the Roundtable Discussion; Myth in the Novel: Some Observations; The Literary Myth in the Novel; Myths in the Novel: Gender, Violence and Power; Novel and Mythology -- Contribution to a Round Table; Greek Novel and Local Myth; Mythical Repertoire and Its Functions in Apuleius' Metamorphoses; Storyline, Poetics and Religion; Love, Mysteries and Literary Tradition: New Experiences and Old Frames; The Tale of a Dream: Oneiros and Mythos in the Greek Novel |
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From Mystery to Initiation: A Mytho-Ritual Poetics of Love and Sex in the Ancient Novel -- even in Apuleius' Golden Ass?From the Legend of Cupid and Psyche to the Novel of Mélusine: Myth, Novel and Twentieth Century Adaptations; Apuleius and Cupid and Psyche: Anthropological, Christian and Philosophical Perspectives; Puella Virgo: Rites of Passage in Apuleius' Metamorphoses; Gnostic Variations on the Tale of Cupid and Psyche; Apuleius and Christianity: The Novelist-Philosopher in front of a New Religion; Ritual, Myth and Intertextuality |
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Donkey Gone to Hell: A Katabasis Motif in Apuleius' MetamorphosesIphigenia Revisited: Heliodorus' Aethiopica and the 'Der Tod und das Mädchen' Pattern; 'Non humana viscera sed centies sestertium comesse' (Petr. Sat. 141,7): Philomela and the Cannibal Heredipetae in the Crotonian Section of Petronius' Satyricon; Religious Imagery, Cult, Mystery and Art; False Fortuna: Religious Imagery and the Painting-Gallery Episode in the Satyricon; The Bees of Artemis Ephesia and the Apocalyptic Scene in Joseph and Aseneth; Magic, Comic Reversal and Healing |
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Shamans and Charlatans: Magic, Mixups, Literary Memory in Apuleius' Golden Ass Book 3Lucius's Rose: Symbolic or Sympathetic Cure?; General Index; Index locorum; About the Authors |
Summary |
Despite the recent and intensified scholarly interest in the field of myth and ritual, inquiry into major shifts in mythical and ritual poetics is still in a preliminary stage. The essays in this collection advance our understanding considerably as they probe the intersections of myth and ritual with the plot of the novels. The volume provides a substantial point of departure for subsequent research into freer models of interaction between literature and religion |
Analysis |
Ancient novel |
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myth |
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ritual |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Greek fiction -- History and criticism
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Mythology in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
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Greek fiction
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Mythology in literature
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Futre Pinheiro, M. (Marília), editor, author
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Bierl, Anton, 1960- editor, author.
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Beck, Roger, 1937- editor.
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ISBN |
9783110311907 |
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3110311909 |
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