| Title: | Apuleius, Metamorfoze. Elemente de narativitate |
| Author: | Cristian Ioan Baumgarten |
| Publication: | Dacoromania. Serie nouă, XVIII (2), p. 138-147 |
| p-ISSN: | 1582-4438 |
| Publisher: | Editura Academiei |
| Place: | Cluj-Napoca |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Abstract: | Whereas ancient novel was considered a secular expression of mystery legends, Metamorphoses is an artistic, allegoric not ritual construct, where imagination fed by the experience of the divine is one of its premises. Apuleius’ novel is a literary system whose idea originates not in local folklore, but in its author’s philosophic beliefs who demonstrates speculative and literary dexterity with reference to eclectic Platonism. Metamorphoses are a so called novel as regards the rezistance to the attempts to situate it within the frame of late ancient narrative, whose primary structure is of a comic type. On the contrary, it is to be considered a mimetic elaboration of the picaresque novel abondant in erotico-comical inserts. Though it was said to be an Entwicklungsroman, its unity is not dued to a systematic construction, but to the antithetic relation between Lucius’ initiations in magic of the IIIrd Book and those depicted in the XIth Book. |
| Language: | Romanian |
| Links: |  pdf  html |
Citations to this publication: 1
| 0 | Florin Sterian | Bibliografia românească de lingvistică (BRL, 56, 2013). Lucrări de lingvistică apărute în țara noastră în cursul anului 2013 | LR, LXIII (2), 161-294 | 2014 | pdf html |
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