Le conte de Psyché et Cupidon, témoin du folklore d'Afrique du nord : essai sur la poétique transculturelle d'Apulée / Emmanuel Plantade.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Plantade, Emmanuel, author.

Series:

Spudasmata ; 0584-9705 Band 196.

Spudasmata, 0584-9705 ; Band 196

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Apuleius. Psyche et Cupido--Criticism and interpretation.

Apuleius.

Africa, North--Intellectual life.

Africa, North.

Africa, North--Antiquities, Roman.

Physical Description:

288 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Hildesheim : Georg Olms Verlag, 2023.

Language Note:

Includes an abstract in English.

Summary:

Based on approaches accepted in Classical Philology as well as on folkloristics, this book defends the theory of Émile Dermenghem, who affirms the Amazigh ("Berber") origin of the tale of Psyche and Cupid. In North Africa, are the oral counterparts of the Latin narrative of Apuleius (ATU 425), mere traces of a European influences? Is it only by affectation that the author, born in Madauros (currently Mdaourouch), recognizes himself as "half-Numidian and half-Getulian" (Apol. 24)? Is this passage the only indication of Africanity in the work? Where did the author find the intellectual legitimacy to insert a 'barbaric' tale into his novel? Is it likely that the Latin narrative generated the oral tales of North Africa? Finally, what is the part of the imperial culture and that of the provincial culture in the middle of the Metamorphoses? The answers to these questions allow the investivation to gradually reconstitute a unique poetic in its time, because it was based on the movement between Latin, Greek, and African (Libyan) cultures of which Apuleius is the heir. -- Summary from book.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-288) and indexes.

ISBN:

9783487164137

3487164132

OCLC:

1385533655

Publisher Number:

9783487164137