Cupid and Psyche

The Reception of Apuleius’ Love Story since 1600

Regine May, Stephen J. Harrison (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

XII, 466 Seiten

2022
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-077748-2 (ISBN)

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Apuleius’ tale of Cupid and Psyche has been popular since it was first written in the second century CE as part of his Latin novel Metamorphoses. Often treated as a standalone text, Cupid and Psyche has given rise to treatments in the last 400 years as diverse as plays, masques, operas, poems, paintings and novels, with a range of diverse approaches to the text.Apuleius’ story of the love between the mortal princess Psyche (or “Soul”) and the god of Love has fascinated recipients as varied as Romantic poets, psychoanalysts, children’s books authors, neo-Platonist philosophers and Disney film producers. These readers themselves produced their own responses to and versions of the story. This volume is the first broad consideration of the reception of C&P in Europe since 1600 and an adventurous interdisciplinary undertaking. It is the first study to focus primarily on material in English, though it also ranges widely across literary genres in Italian, French and German, encompassing poetry, drama and opera as well as prose fiction and art history, studied by an international team of established and young scholars.Detailed studies of single works and of whole genres make this book relevant for students of Classics, English, Art History, opera and modern film.

R. May, University of Leeds, Leeds and S. Harrison, Corpus Christi College Oxford, Oxford, UK.

Erscheinungsdatum	22.01.2022
Reihe/Serie	Trends in Classics – Pathways of Reception ; 1
Zusatzinfo	31 col. ill.
Verlagsort	Berlin/Boston
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 230 mm
Gewicht	858 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
Schlagworte	Apuleius • Cupid and Psyche • lateinischer Roman • Latin novel • Reception • Rezeption der Antike
ISBN-10	3-11-077748-7 / 3110777487
ISBN-13	978-3-11-077748-2 / 9783110777482
Zustand	Neuware