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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beck, Roger, 1937-

Bierl, Anton, 1960-

Futre Pinheiro, M. (Marília)

Series:

MythosEikonPoiesis ; Bd. 6.

MythosEikonPoiesis ; Band 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek fiction--History and criticism.

Greek fiction.

Mythology in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (332 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Representation of myth in the novel, as a poetic, narrative and aesthetic device, is one of the most illuminating issues in the area of ancient religion, for such narratives investigate in various ways fundamental problems that concern all human beings. This volume brings together twenty contributions (six of them to a Roundtable organized by Anton Bierl on myth), originally presented at the Fourth International Conference on the Ancient novel (ICAN IV) held in Lisbon in July 2008. Employing an interdisciplinary approach and putting together different methodological tools (intertextual, psychological, and anthropological), each offers a illuminating investigation of mythical discourse as presented in the text or texts under discussion. The collection as a whole demonstrates the exemplary and transgressive significance of myth and its metaphorical meaning in a genre that to some extent can be considered a modernized and secular form of myth that focuses on the quintessential question of love.

Contents:

Front matter

Editors’ Preface and Acknowledgements

Contents

Introduction

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

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

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

Donkey Gone to Hell: A Katabasis Motif in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses

Iphigenia 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

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

Shamans and Charlatans: Magic, Mixups, Literary Memory in Apuleius’ Golden Ass Book 3

Lucius’s Rose: Symbolic or Sympathetic Cure?

General Index

Index locorum

About the Authors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 24, 2013).

ISBN:

9783110311907

3110311909

OCLC:

862938375