Narrative Subversion and Religious Satire in Metamorphoses 11
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20086526 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen Harrison (0000-0001-5951-3300, corresponding author), Stephen C Harrison (0000-0001-7215-9393) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Pages | 73-85 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Aspects of Apuleius' Golden Ass (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/9789004224551_005 |
| OpenAlex | W2248229103 |
| ISBN | 9789004224551 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This chapter restates and reinforces previous arguments for a fundamentally satirical view through a reading of some key scenes in the book. The chapter presents a visionary experience on Lucius' part: he wakes up in the middle of the night, prays to the moon, and has an epiphany of Isis in response. During the epiphany scene, the goddess had told Lucius that she was simultaneously informing her priest in a vision about Lucius' coming retransformation. The author argues that the final book in Apuleius' novel, while allowing Lucius to speak in a genuinely committed religious voice, makes free use of the ironic voice of Apuleius-author to emphasise the playful fictionality of the work rather than its spiritual truth or echoes of realistic religious experience, and that Book 11 does not mark a step-change from the rest of the novel in the characterisation of Lucius' foolishness. Keywords:Apuleius-author; goddess; Lucius; religious experience
Art · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Subversion · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Law · Organic Chemistry Synthesis Methods
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |