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

Winkler, John J.
2018
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Title
Auctor and Actor : A Narratological Reading of Apuleius's the Golden Ass.
Author
Winkler, John J.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780520377172
9780520301146
Published
Berkeley : University of California Press, 2018.
Copyright
©1986.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (357 pages).
Dewey Decimal Classification
873.01
Summary
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.
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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.

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