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No full textApuleius and Africa
The Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass of Apuleius (ca. 170 CE ) is a Latin
novel written by a native of Madauros in Roman North Africa, a region
roughly equal to modern Tunisia together with parts of Libya and Algeria.
Apuleius’ novel is based on the model of a lost Greek novel; it narrates the
adventures of a Greek character with a Roman name who spends the bulk
of the novel transformed into an animal, traveling from Greece to Rome
only to end his adventures in the capital city of the empire as a priest of the
Egyptian goddess Isis. Apuleius’ Florida and Apology deal more explicitly
with the African provenance and character of their author while also dem-
onstrating his complex interaction with Greek, Roman, and local cultures.
Apuleius’ philosophical works raise other questions about Greek versus
African and Roman cultural identity.
Apuleius and Africa addresses the problem of this intricate complex of
different identities and its connection to Apuleius’ literary production. It
especially emphasizes Apuleius’ African heritage, which has for the most
part been downplayed or even deplored by previous scholarship. The con-
tributors include philologists, historians, and experts in material culture;
among them are some of the most respected scholars in their fi elds. The
chapters give due attention to all elements of Apuleius’ oeuvre and break
new ground both on the interpretation of Apuleius’ literary production and
on the culture of the Roman Empire in the second century
Apuleius and Africa
No full textThe Metamorphoses or Golden Ass of Apuleius (ca. 170 CE) is a Latin novel written by a native of Madauros in Roman North Africa, roughly equal to modern Tunisia together with parts of Libya and Algeria. Apuleius’ novel is based on the model of a lost Greek novel; it narrates the adventures of a Greek character with a Roman name who spends the bulk of the novel transformed into an animal, traveling from Greece to Rome only to end his adventures in the capital city of the empire as a priest of the Egyptian goddess Isis. Apuleius’ Florida and Apology deal more explicitly with the African provenance and character of their author while also demonstrating his complex interaction with Greek, Roman, and local cultures. Apuleius’ philosophical works raise other questions about Greek vs. African and Roman cultural identity.
Apuleius in Africa addresses the problem of this intricate complex of different identities and its connection to Apuleius’ literary production. It especially emphasizes Apuleius’ African heritage, a heritage that has for the most part been either downplayed or even deplored by previous scholarship. The contributors include philologists, historians, and experts in material culture; among them are some of the most respected scholars in their fields. The chapters give due attention to all elements of Apuleius’ oeuvre, and break new ground both on the interpretation of Apuleius’ literary production and on the culture of the Roman Empire in the second century. The volume also includes a modern, sub-Saharan contribution in which "Africa" mainly means Mediterranean Africa
The negotiation of provincial identity throught literature: Apuleius and Vergil
No full textThe Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass of Apuleius (ca. 170 CE ) is a Latin
novel written by a native of Madauros in Roman North Africa, a region
roughly equal to modern Tunisia together with parts of Libya and Algeria.
Apuleius’ novel is based on the model of a lost Greek novel; it narrates the
adventures of a Greek character with a Roman name who spends the bulk
of the novel transformed into an animal, traveling from Greece to Rome
only to end his adventures in the capital city of the empire as a priest of the
Egyptian goddess Isis. Apuleius’ Florida and Apology deal more explicitly
with the African provenance and character of their author while also dem-
onstrating his complex interaction with Greek, Roman, and local cultures.
Apuleius’ philosophical works raise other questions about Greek versus
African and Roman cultural identity.
Apuleius and Africa addresses the problem of this intricate complex of
different identities and its connection to Apuleius’ literary production. It
especially emphasizes Apuleius’ African heritage, which has for the most
part been downplayed or even deplored by previous scholarship. The con-
tributors include philologists, historians, and experts in material culture;
among them are some of the most respected scholars in their fi elds. The
chapters give due attention to all elements of Apuleius’ oeuvre and break
new ground both on the interpretation of Apuleius’ literary production and
on the culture of the Roman Empire in the second century
Apuleius and Africa
No full textBenjamin Todd Lee, Ellen Finkelpearl, Luca Graverini (eds.) Routledge monographs in classical studies, 18. New York; London: Routledge, 2014. xvi, 344 p. ISBN 9780415533096 Compte Rendu par Vincent Hunick: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2015/2015-04-04.htm
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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