Apuleius: Metamorphoses

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Regine May

Apuleius’ Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass, our only complete Latin novel, tells the storyof Lucius, a young man turned into a donkey by magic because of his unfettered curiosity.After many adventures he is finally saved by the goddess Isis, whose follower he becomes.The famous first book of the novel introduces the protagonist’s character, his interest in magicand his gullibility, but also important themes of the novel such as metamorphosis from maninto beast. Lucius listens to stories about magic and witchcraft told to him on his journey to ancient Thessaly and narrates them to the reader. A substantial part of the first bookaccordingly concentrates on the self-contained tale about a certain Socrates and his unhappyexperiences with murderous Thessalian witches. Apuleius himself had been put on trial forallegedly using erotic magic to make his future wife fall in love with him, a theme which alsoappears in Metamorphoses 1. Throughout the novel, Apuleius portrays Lucius as anunreliable first person narrator and thus implicates the reader of the novel in the samecharacter fault that drives its protagonist: curiosity.

This new edition presents the Latin text with a modern translation, substantial introductionand accompanying commentary. The author Apuleius is discussed in the literary environmentof the second century AD together with key themes of the first book and the novel as a whole.Special attention is given to ancient magic, the roles of philosophy and the goddess Isis in thenovel as well as the extensive reception of the first book in literature up to modern times. Thecommentary illustrates Apuleius’ text as a densely constructed literary work and explainsliterary allusions as well as philosophical, historical and religious contexts.

Regine May is Lecturer in Latin Literature in the Department of Classics at the University ofLeeds and the author of Apuleius and Drama: The Ass on Stage (Oxford 2006) and numerous articles on Apuleius and the ancient novels.

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Use these fields for searchingApuleius: MetamorphosesBook 1

Regine May

Apuleius’ Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass, our only complete Latin novel, tells the storyof Lucius, a young man turned into a donkey by magic because of his unfettered curiosity.After many adventures he is finally saved by the goddess Isis, whose follower he becomes.The famous first book of the novel introduces the protagonist’s character, his interest in magicand his gullibility, but also important themes of the novel such as metamorphosis from maninto beast. Lucius listens to stories about magic and witchcraft told to him on his journey toancient Thessaly and narrates them to the reader. A substantial part of the first bookaccordingly concentrates on the self-contained tale about a certain Socrates and his unhappyexperiences with murderous Thessalian witches. Apuleius himself had been put on trial forallegedly using erotic magic to make his future wife fall in love with him, a theme which alsoappears in Metamorphoses 1. Throughout the novel, Apuleius portrays Lucius as anunreliable first person narrator and thus implicates the reader of the novel in the samecharacter fault that drives its protagonist: curiosity.

This new edition presents the Latin text with a modern translation, substantial introductionand accompanying commentary. The author Apuleius is discussed in the literary environmentof the second century AD together with key themes of the first book and the novel as a whole.Special attention is given to ancient magic, the roles of philosophy and the goddess Isis in thenovel as well as the extensive reception of the first book in literature up to modern times. Thecommentary illustrates Apuleius’ text as a densely constructed literary work and explainsliterary allusions as well as philosophical, historical and religious contexts.

Regine May is Lecturer in Latin Literature in the Department of Classics at the University ofLeeds and the author of Apuleius and Drama: The Ass on Stage (Oxford 2006) and numerousarticles on Apuleius and the ancient novels.



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Use these fields for searchingMaria Victoria AtenciaLegend of Myself

Maria Victoria AtenciaRoberta Ann Quance

In this collection of 65 short poems, Roberta Quance exemplifies the range, vitality and innermysticism of work by one of Spain’s foremost, if controversial, contemporary female poets,drawing on the contents of a number of Spanish collections.

In Atencia’s poetry the poetic subject is often seen as someone who occupies an interiorspace, either crossing over the threshold from the outside world to an inner one (a garden, ahouse, a castle), or moving from the inner, home space to one even more interior: the world ofdreams and imagination and hope, which can project outward into liminal spaces of the sky orthe sea. A very basic paradox of Christian mystical experience – of abasement andmagnification – haunts Atencia’s work. She has made her own one of its fundamental tenets:the purging of self, the shedding of all trace of worldly attachment in order to ‘make room’for experience of a different reality: the self’s sense of ‘nothingness’ in the face of beauty is aprized moment in and of itself; it is sublime.

Atencia’s definitive manner: classically shaped verse in the tradition of the ‘pure poetry’ ofthe Generation of 1927, which makes myth of a womanly self, is amply explored in this firstmajor English edition of her work to appear since 1987.

María Victoria Atencia was born in Málaga (Andalusia) in 1931 and has lived there or in thecountry thereabouts all of her life Although trained originally as a pianist she chose a vocationfor poetry, instead, publishing her first work in 1953 and continuing to publish to the presentday. In 2010 she was given the Federico García Lorca prize for poetry, in recognition of alifetime of achievement.

Roberta Quance is Senior Lecturer in Spanish and Portuguese Studies at Queen’s UniversityBelfast. She is author of books on mythology and modernity in modern literature and desire inthe poetry of Lorca as well as articles on women writers and artists associated with theGeneration of 1927 and translations of work by Carlos Piera.



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Use these fields for searchingMaria Victoria AtenciaLegend of Myself

Maria Victoria AtenciaRoberta Ann Quance

In this collection of 65 short poems, Roberta Quance exemplifies the range, vitality and innermysticism of work by one of Spain’s foremost, if controversial, contemporary female poets,drawing on the contents of a number of Spanish collections.

In Atencia’s poetry the poetic subject is often seen as someone who occupies an interiorspace, either crossing over the threshold from the outside world to an inner one (a garden, ahouse, a castle), or moving from the inner, home space to one even more interior: the world ofdreams and imagination and hope, which can project outward into liminal spaces of the sky orthe sea. A very basic paradox of Christian mystical experience – of abasement andmagnification – haunts Atencia’s work. She has made her own one of its fundamental tenets:the purging of self, the shedding of all trace of worldly attachment in order to ‘make room’for experience of a different reality: the self’s sense of ‘nothingness’ in the face of beauty is aprized moment in and of itself; it is sublime.

Atencia’s definitive manner: classically shaped verse in the tradition of the ‘pure poetry’ ofthe Generation of 1927, which makes myth of a womanly self, is amply explored in this firstmajor English edition of her work to appear since 1987.

María Victoria Atencia was born in Málaga (Andalusia) in 1931 and has lived there or in thecountry thereabouts all of her life Although trained originally as a pianist she chose a vocationfor poetry, instead, publishing her first work in 1953 and continuing to publish to the presentday. In 2010 she was given the Federico García Lorca prize for poetry, in recognition of alifetime of achievement.

Roberta Quance is Senior Lecturer in Spanish and Portuguese Studies at Queen’s UniversityBelfast. She is author of books on mythology and modernity in modern literature and desire inthe poetry of Lorca as well as articles on women writers and artists associated with theGeneration of 1927 and translations of work by Carlos Piera.



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Use these fields for searchingAlejo Carpentier and the Musical TextKatia Chornik

Widely known for his novels El reino de este mundo (The Kingdom of this World) and Lospasos perdidos (The Lost Steps), the Swiss-born Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier (1904–1980)incorporated music in his fiction extensively, for instance in titles, in analogies with musicalforms, in scenes depicting performances, recordings and broadcasts, and in characters’discussions of musical issues. Chornik’s study focuses on Carpentier’s writings from amusicological perspective, bridging intermediality and intertextuality through an examinationof music as formative, as form, and as performed. The emphasis lies on the novels Los pasosperdidos, El acoso (The Chase), Concierto barroco (Baroque Concerto) and La consagraciónde la primavera (The Rite of Spring), and on his unknown essay Los orígenes de la música yla música primitiva (The Origins of Music and Primitive Music), the repository of ideas forLos pasos perdidos, included here for the first time as facsimile and in English translation.Chornik’s study will appeal to scholars and students in literary studies, cultural studies,musicology and ethnomusicology, and to a specifically interdisciplinary readership.



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Use these fields for searchingArtifice and Invention in the SpanishGolden AgeStephen BoydTerence O'Reilly

The corpus of literary works shaped by the Renaissance and the Baroque that appeared inSpain during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries had a transforming effect on writingthroughout Europe and left a rich legacy that scholars continue to explore. For four decadesafter the Spanish Civil War the study of this literature flourished in Great Britain and Ireland,where many of the leading scholars in the field were based. Though this particular ‘GoldenAge’ was followed by a decline for many years, there have recently been signs of a significantrevival. The present book seeks to showcase the latest research of established and youngercolleagues from Great Britain and Ireland on the Spanish Golden Age. It falls into foursections, in each of which works by particular authors are examined in detail: prose (Miguelde Cervantes, Francisco de Quevedo, Baltasar Gracián), poetry (The Count of Salinas, Luis deGóngora, Pedro Soto de Rojas), drama (Cervantes, Calderón, Lope de Vega), and colonialwriting (Bernardo Balbuena, Hernando Domínguez Camargo, Alonso de Ercilla). There areessays also on more general themes (the motif of poetry as manna; rehearsals on the GoldenAge stage; proposals put to viceroys on governing Spanish Naples). The essays, takentogether, offer a representative sample of current scholarship in England, Scotland, andIreland.



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Use these fields for searchingDostoevsky and the Epileptic Mode ofBeingPaul Fung

For Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-81), who lived with epileptic seizures for more than thirtyyears, illness is an ineradicable part of existence. Epilepsy in his writings denotes both a set ofphysical symptoms and a state of survival in which the protagonists incessantly try toarticulate, theorize, or master what is ungraspable in their everyday experience. Theirattempts to deal with what they cannot control or comprehend results in disappointment, orwhat Dostoevsky called a mystical terror. Dostoevsky's heroes are unable fully to understandthis state, and their existence becomes 'epileptic' in so far as self-knowledge and self-coincidence are never achieved.Fung explores new critical pathways by reexamining five of Dostoevsky's post-Siberiannovels. Drawing on insights from writers including Benjamin, Blanchot, Freud, Lacan andNietzsche, the book takes epilepsy as a trope for discussing the unspeakable moments in thetexts, and is intended for students and scholars who are interested in the subject of modernity,critique of the visual, and dialogues between philosophy and literature.

Paul Fung is Assistant Professor in English at Hang Seng Management College, Hong Kong.



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Use these fields for searchingThe Latin American Short Story at itsLimitsFragmentation, Hybridity and Intermediality

Lucy Bell

The Latin American short story has often been viewed in terms of its relation to orality,tradition and myth. But this desire to celebrate the difference of Latin American cultureunwittingly contributes to its exoticization, failing to do justice to its richness, complexity andcontemporaneity. By re-reading and re-viewing the short stories of Juan Rulfo, Julio Cortázarand Augusto Monterroso, Bell reveals the hybridity of this genre. It is at once rooted intraditional narrative and fragmented by modern experience; its residual qualities are revivedthrough emergent forms. Crucially, its oral and mythical characteristics are compounded withthe formal traits of modern, emerging media: photography, cinema, telephony, journalism,and cartoon art.



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Use these fields for searchingRichardson and the PhilosophesJames Fowler

In mid-eighteenth-century Europe, a taste for sentiment accompanied the 'rise of the novel',and the success of Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) played a vital role in this. James Fowler'snew study is the first to compare the response of the most famous philosophes to theRichardson phenomenon. Voltaire, who claims to despise the novel, writes four'Richardsonian' fictions; Diderot's fascination with the English author is expressed in LaReligieuse, Rousseau's in Julie — the century's bestseller. Yet the philosophes' responseremains ambivalent. On the one hand they admire Richardson's ability to make the readerweep. On the other, they champion a range of Enlightenment beliefs which he, an enthusiastof Milton, vehemently opposed. In death as in life, the English author exacerbates thephilosophes' rivalry. The eulogy which Diderot writes in 1761 implicitly asks: who can writea new Clarissa? But also: whose social, philosophical or political ideas will triumph as aresult?



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Use these fields for searchingThe Selected Essays of Malcolm BowieVolumes I and II

Alison FinchMalcolm Bowie

Malcolm Bowie (1943-2007) was described by A.S. Byatt as ‘one of our best living critics.He writes beautifully, subtly and lucidly about very difficult subjects.’ Bowie was MarshalFoch Professor of French at Oxford (1992-2002) and Master of Christ’s College, Cambridge(2002-2006). He received numerous honours, was invited to speak all over the world, and in2001 won the international Truman Capote Prize for Literary Criticism for his Proust Amongthe Stars. The essays and reviews in these volumes have never before been brought together.Ranging across literature, art, music, and psychoanalysis, they offer fresh insights into topicstackled in Bowie’s books, and discuss quite new ones.

Volume I, Dreams of Knowledge, presents essays on memory, Proust, modern poetry(Mallarmé, Valéry, Eluard), and psychoanalysis. Bowie explores the uncertainties ofknowledge, the relationship between fantasy and experience, and the ways great writers,artists and thinkers represent these.

Volume II, Song Man, presents shorter pieces, including Bowie’s essays on song and musiccriticism. They explore important cultural issues such as anti-Semitism, images of gender, andideas of the nation. Among composers and writers figuring in this volume are Mozart,Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Judith Butler, Borges, Leroy Ladurie and Edward Said; reviewscover films, plays, and operas as well as books.

These volumes can be purchased separately or as a pair at a discounted rate.

The Selected Essays of Malcolm Bowie are edited by Alison Finch, Senior Research Fellowof Churchill College, Cambridge.



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Use these fields for searchingSpanish New York Narratives 1898-1936Modernization, Otherness and Nation

David Miranda-Barreiro

In the early decades of the twentieth century, New York caught the attention of Spanishwriters. Many of them visited the city and returned to tell their experience in the form of aliterary text. That is the case of Pruebas de Nueva York (1927) by José Moreno Villa (1887-1955), El crisol de las razas (1929) by Teresa de Escoriaza (1891-1968), Anticípolis (1931)by Luis de Oteyza (1883-1961) and La ciudad automática (1932) by Julio Camba (1882-1962). In tune with similar representations in other European works, the image of New Yorkgiven in these texts reflects the tensions and anxieties generated by the modernisationembodied by the United States. These authors project onto New York their concerns andexpectations about issues of class, gender and ethnicity that were debated at the time, in thecontext of the crisis of Spanish national identity triggered by the end of the empire in 1898.



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Use these fields for searchingUnamuno’s Theory of the NovelC. A. Longhurst

Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936) is widely regarded as Spain’s greatest and mostcontroversial writer of the first half of the twentieth century. Professor of Greek, and laterRector, at the University of Salamanca, and a figure with a noted public profile in his day, hewrote a large number of philosophical, political and philological essays, as well as poems,plays and short stories, but it is his highly idiosyncratic novels, for which he coined the wordnivola, that have attracted the greatest critical attention. Niebla (Mist, 1914) has become oneof the most studied works of Spanish literature, such is the enduring fascination which it hasprovoked. In this study, C. A. Longhurst, a distinguished Unamuno scholar, sets out to showthat behind Unamuno’s fictional experiments there lies a coherent and quasi-philosophicalconcept of the novelesque genre and indeed of writing itself. Ideas about freedom, identity,finality, mutuality and community are closely intertwined with ideas on writing and readingand give rise to a new and highly personal way of conceiving fiction.



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Use these fields for searchingThe Very Late GoetheSelf-Consciousness and the Art of Ageing

Charlotte Lee

Goethe's career was an unusually long and productive one: he became a literary celebrity inthe 1770s and remained so until his death in 1832. The distinguishing feature of his last worksis their self-consciousness, their preoccupation both with the business of writing and withpersonal development. In the first cross-genre study of this period of Goethe's work, CharlotteLee traces the theme in his last major poems and autobiographical writings, before turning tothe two 'giants', 'Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre' and 'Faust II'. All these works share atendency to allude subtly to earlier moments from Goethe's own literary output, but to fashionthem into writing which is quite new - even though (or perhaps because) he himself is old.This book seeks to understand the unique perspective of one nearing the end of a long life.



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PUBLICATION DATE:January 31, 2014

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