Description
Despite the recent and intensified scholarly interest in the field of myth and ritual, inquiry into major shifts in mythical and ritual poetics is still in a preliminary stage. The essays in this collection advance our understanding considerably as they probe the intersections of myth and ritual with the plot of the novels. The volume provides a substantial point of departure for subsequent research into freer models of interaction between literature and religion.
Chapter
The Literary Myth in the Novel
Myths in the Novel: Gender, Violence and Power
Novel and Mythology – Contribution to a Round Table
Greek Novel and Local Myth
Mythical Repertoire and Its Functions in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses
Storyline, Poetics and Religion
Love, Mysteries and Literary Tradition: New Experiences and Old Frames
The Tale of a Dream: Oneiros and Mythos in the Greek Novel
From Mystery to Initiation: A Mytho-Ritual Poetics of Love and Sex in the Ancient Novel – even in Apuleius’ Golden Ass?
From the Legend of Cupid and Psyche to the Novel of Mélusine: Myth, Novel and Twentieth Century Adaptations
Apuleius and Cupid and Psyche: Anthropological, Christian and Philosophical Perspectives
Puella Virgo: Rites of Passage in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses
Gnostic Variations on the Tale of Cupid and Psyche
Apuleius and Christianity: The Novelist-Philosopher in front of a New Religion
Ritual, Myth and Intertextuality
Donkey Gone to Hell: A Katabasis Motif in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses
Iphigenia Revisited: Heliodorus’ Aethiopica and the ‘Der Tod und das Mädchen’ Pattern
‘Non humana viscera sed centies sestertium comesse’ (Petr. Sat. 141,7): Philomela and the Cannibal Heredipetae in the Crotonian Section of Petronius’ Satyricon
Religious Imagery, Cult, Mystery and Art
False Fortuna: Religious Imagery and the Painting-Gallery Episode in the Satyricon
The Bees of Artemis Ephesia and the Apocalyptic Scene in Joseph and Aseneth
Magic, Comic Reversal and Healing
Shamans and Charlatans: Magic, Mixups, Literary Memory in Apuleius’ Golden Ass Book 3
Lucius’s Rose: Symbolic or Sympathetic Cure?
Apuleius and Cupid and Psyche: Anthropological, Christian and Philosophical Perspectives
Ritual, Myth and Intertextuality
Religious Imagery, Cult, Mystery and Art
Magic, Comic Reversal and Healing
Intende, Lector - Echoes of Myth, Religion and Ritual in the Ancient Novel
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