R. H. F. Carver, The Protean Ass: The Metamorphoses of Apuleius from Antiquity to the Renaissance

Robert H. F. Carver, The Protean Ass: The Metamorphoses of Apuleius from Antiquity to the Renaissance, Oxford: Oxford University Press, coll. "Oxford Classical Monographs", 2007. xv, 545 pages. ISBN 9780199217861 $170.00   Recension par Benjamin Todd Lee (Oberlin College) dans Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009.03.13.

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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.

Robert H.F. Carver, Lecturer in Renaissance Literature Deparment of English Studies, Unversity of Durham.

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