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A Comedy of Storytelling
Theatricality and Narrative in Apuleius’ ‘Golden Ass’
Bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften, Neue Folge, 2. Reihe, Bd. 127
2012
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Abstract
Current interpretations of Apuleius’ ‘Golden Ass’ cover the entire spectrum from a religious autobiography to an incongruous collection of titillating stories. The goal of this book is to explain the extraordinary polyphony of Apuleius’ novel as a Product of the 2nd century CE context, in which elite culture (philosophy and sophistic oratory) and popular entertainment not only share the same venues and appeal to the same audiences but also engage in active exchange of Subject matter and histrionic techniques. The book argues that Apuleius’ narrative represents a mosaic of discourses each of which possesses a respectable pedigree in the world of Greco-Roman ‘paideia’. It further traces the ensuing ambiguity to the Second Sophistic rhetoric and concludes that the particular thrill of reading the novel consists in the ironic frustration of any attempt to discover a centripetal force in an irreducibly multi-polar text. (Der Autor ist Preisträger des „Heidelberger Förderpreises für klassisch-philologische Theoriebildung“ 2009)
Inhaltsverzeichnis
| Zwischenüberschrift | Seite | Aktion | Preis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | C | ||
| Titelei | I | ||
| Contents | VII | ||
| Preface | IX | ||
| Introduction | 1 | ||
| Part 1 Theatricality | 9 | ||
| 1. The Nonsense of the Mime: The Golden Ass and Popular Theater | 11 | ||
| 1.1. The Mime’s centunculus | 11 | ||
| 1.2. Mime Plots | 18 | ||
| 1.3. Mimic Self-Referentiality: Risus mimicus and the Mimesis of the Mime | 36 | ||
| 2. Contrary to the Story | 45 | ||
| 2.1. Representational Paradoxes at the Roman Arena | 45 | ||
| 2.2. The Primary Narrative and the Inserted Tales | 59 | ||
| Part II Multiple Plotting | 69 | ||
| 3. Crime, Punishment, and Redemption: Lucius’ Life as a Narrative ofMiraculous Healing | 71 | ||
| 4. Conversion to Philosophy: Lucius’ Life as a PhilosophicalBiography | 87 | ||
| 5. De audiendis fabulis: Lucius’ Life as a Philosophical Myth | 107 | ||
| 6. The Ass from Cymae: Lucius’ Life as a Lucianic Satire | 123 | ||
| 7. The Magic of Rhetoric: Lucius’ Life as an Aristophanic Comedy | 143 | ||
| Part III Narrative | 161 | ||
| 8. Desultoriae scientiae stilus: From Drama to Narrative | 163 | ||
| 8.1. The Writer as a Stand-up Comedian | 163 | ||
| 8.2. Milesian tales | 178 | ||
| 8.3. Omnis musae mancipium: Petronius’ Satyricon | 185 | ||
| 9. Theatricality and Rhetoric: The Golden Ass and the Second Sophistic | 201 | ||
| 9.1. Simili stilo: Apuleius’ Narrator as a Sophistic Entertainer | 201 | ||
| 9.2. Varias fabulas conserere: Apuleius’ Narrative as a Specimen of Figured Speech | 211 | ||
| 9.3. Acting out paideia | 219 | ||
| Bibliography | 227 | ||
| Index nominum et rerum | 235 | ||
| Index locorum | 241 |
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