Auctor and Actor : A Narratological Reading of Apuleius's the Golden Ass

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911009238503321
• Autore: Winkler John J
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2018; ©2024
• ISBN: 0-520-37717-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (357 pages)
• Disciplina: 873/.01
• Soggetti: Detective and mystery stories - History and criticism; First person narrative; Narration (Rhetoric); LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. The Question of Reading -- The Question of Genre -- Mithras's Interpretation of The Golden Ass -- Hermeneutic Entertainment -- Historical Context -- Overview -- Part One. Truth -- 2. The Interpretation of Tales -- Introduction -- Aristomenes' Tale of Socrates (1.2-20) -- Lucius's Account of Lucius (1.26) -- Milo's Tale of Diophanes (2.11-15) -- The Ass Reporter -- Two Women's Stories -- 3. The Scrupulous Reader -- Detection -- Sensation! -- 4. The Contract -- Playing Fair -- Malice Aforethought -- Implication -- The Marketplace of Desire -- 5. Interlude: Socrates in Motley -- Part Two. Consequences -- 6. The Duplicities of Auctor / Actor -- The Narrator (Auctor) as Character (Actor) and the Character of the Narrator -- Suppression of the Auctor-Narrator -- From Auctor-Narrator to Auctor-Novelist, and Back Again -- 7. The Prologue as Conundrum -- The Origin of the Book -- Egyptian Sharpness -- Mutual Nexus -- The Rude Speaker's Identity -- A Model for the Speaker's Identity -- 8. The Text Questions, the Reader Answers -- Three Difficulties -- The Isiac Interpretation of Lucius's Life -- Surprises at Rome: Money and More Initiations -- The Final Image -- How Else Could This Book Be Read? -- ; Part Three. Conjectures -- 9. Parody Lost and Regained -- Three Tales of the Ass -- The Restless Quest for Wisdom -- Apuleius's Adaptation of the Parody -- 10. Isis and Aesop -- Why Isis? -- The Life of Aesop -- The Grotesque Perspective -- 11. The Gilding of the Ass -- The External Case for Asinus Aureus -- The Meaning of the Title -- Select Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Addressed to readers of modern literature as well as to those interested in Greco-Roman literature and in religious history, Auctor and Actor examines Apuleius's The Golden Ass as an early example of self-consciousness in narrative. Entering into the spirit of the novel's crafty playfulness, John J. Winkler carries the reader on a journey that is, like that of the hero Lucius, both entertaining and enlightening. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1986.