Cultural identity in Apuleius' Metamorphoses

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angličtina

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Cultural identity in Apuleius' Metamorphoses

Original language description

There is hardly any ancient work as complex and multi-layered as Apuleius' novel Metamorphoses. Whether we regard it as a mere sophisticated literary entertainment, or a religious lesson disguised as fabula Graecanica, it certainly offers many angles ofresearch. The aim of the paper is to examine its multicultural character. Although modelled on the Greek narrative and taking place in completely Greek environments following the Greek literary tradition; undeniably, it possesses an air of Romanness. Theauthor lets his characters fluctuate somewhere between Roman and Greek, urban and provincial, local and imperial, barbarian and sophisticated. In many places, Lucius, Apuleius' alter ego, refers to the relationships between different cultures, especially Greek and Roman, not to forget African with respect to Apuleius´ origins. But we have to look even further and see the novel as a fictitious world of its own, playing on reader's expectations, prejudices, historical and cultural backgro

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O - Miscellaneous

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AJ - Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities

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S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů