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Intende, lector : echoes of myth, religion and ritual in the ancient novel / edited by Marília P. Futre Pinheiro, Anton Bierl and Roger Beck.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: MythosEikonPoiesis ; Bd. 6.Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (ix, 319 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110311907
  • 3110311909
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Intende, lector.DDC classification:
  • 883/.0109 23
LOC classification:
  • PA3257 .I58 2013eb
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  • online - EBSCO
  • FB 6101
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Contents:
Introduction; Roundtable Myth and the Novel; Myth and the Novel: Introductory Remarks and Comments on the Roundtable Discussion; Myth in the Novel: Some Observations; The Literary Myth in the Novel; Myths in the Novel: Gender, Violence and Power; Novel and Mythology -- Contribution to a Round Table; Greek Novel and Local Myth; Mythical Repertoire and Its Functions in Apuleius' Metamorphoses; Storyline, Poetics and Religion; Love, Mysteries and Literary Tradition: New Experiences and Old Frames; The Tale of a Dream: Oneiros and Mythos in the Greek Novel.
From Mystery to Initiation: A Mytho-Ritual Poetics of Love and Sex in the Ancient Novel -- even in Apuleius' Golden Ass?From the Legend of Cupid and Psyche to the Novel of Mélusine: Myth, Novel and Twentieth Century Adaptations; Apuleius and Cupid and Psyche: Anthropological, Christian and Philosophical Perspectives; Puella Virgo: Rites of Passage in Apuleius' Metamorphoses; Gnostic Variations on the Tale of Cupid and Psyche; Apuleius and Christianity: The Novelist-Philosopher in front of a New Religion; Ritual, Myth and Intertextuality.
Donkey Gone to Hell: A Katabasis Motif in Apuleius' MetamorphosesIphigenia Revisited: Heliodorus' Aethiopica and the 'Der Tod und das Mädchen' Pattern; 'Non humana viscera sed centies sestertium comesse' (Petr. Sat. 141,7): Philomela and the Cannibal Heredipetae in the Crotonian Section of Petronius' Satyricon; Religious Imagery, Cult, Mystery and Art; False Fortuna: Religious Imagery and the Painting-Gallery Episode in the Satyricon; The Bees of Artemis Ephesia and the Apocalyptic Scene in Joseph and Aseneth; Magic, Comic Reversal and Healing.
Shamans and Charlatans: Magic, Mixups, Literary Memory in Apuleius' Golden Ass Book 3Lucius's Rose: Symbolic or Sympathetic Cure?; General Index; Index locorum; About the Authors.
Summary: Despite the recent and intensified scholarly interest in the field of myth and ritual, inquiry into major shifts in mythical and ritual poetics is still in a preliminary stage. The essays in this collection advance our understanding considerably as they probe the intersections of myth and ritual with the plot of the novels. The volume provides a substantial point of departure for subsequent research into freer models of interaction between literature and religion.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Print version record.

Introduction; Roundtable Myth and the Novel; Myth and the Novel: Introductory Remarks and Comments on the Roundtable Discussion; Myth in the Novel: Some Observations; The Literary Myth in the Novel; Myths in the Novel: Gender, Violence and Power; Novel and Mythology -- Contribution to a Round Table; Greek Novel and Local Myth; Mythical Repertoire and Its Functions in Apuleius' Metamorphoses; Storyline, Poetics and Religion; Love, Mysteries and Literary Tradition: New Experiences and Old Frames; The Tale of a Dream: Oneiros and Mythos in the Greek Novel.

From Mystery to Initiation: A Mytho-Ritual Poetics of Love and Sex in the Ancient Novel -- even in Apuleius' Golden Ass?From the Legend of Cupid and Psyche to the Novel of Mélusine: Myth, Novel and Twentieth Century Adaptations; Apuleius and Cupid and Psyche: Anthropological, Christian and Philosophical Perspectives; Puella Virgo: Rites of Passage in Apuleius' Metamorphoses; Gnostic Variations on the Tale of Cupid and Psyche; Apuleius and Christianity: The Novelist-Philosopher in front of a New Religion; Ritual, Myth and Intertextuality.

Donkey Gone to Hell: A Katabasis Motif in Apuleius' MetamorphosesIphigenia Revisited: Heliodorus' Aethiopica and the 'Der Tod und das Mädchen' Pattern; 'Non humana viscera sed centies sestertium comesse' (Petr. Sat. 141,7): Philomela and the Cannibal Heredipetae in the Crotonian Section of Petronius' Satyricon; Religious Imagery, Cult, Mystery and Art; False Fortuna: Religious Imagery and the Painting-Gallery Episode in the Satyricon; The Bees of Artemis Ephesia and the Apocalyptic Scene in Joseph and Aseneth; Magic, Comic Reversal and Healing.

Shamans and Charlatans: Magic, Mixups, Literary Memory in Apuleius' Golden Ass Book 3Lucius's Rose: Symbolic or Sympathetic Cure?; General Index; Index locorum; About the Authors.

Despite the recent and intensified scholarly interest in the field of myth and ritual, inquiry into major shifts in mythical and ritual poetics is still in a preliminary stage. The essays in this collection advance our understanding considerably as they probe the intersections of myth and ritual with the plot of the novels. The volume provides a substantial point of departure for subsequent research into freer models of interaction between literature and religion.

English.