James, Paula
(2001). From prologue to story: metaphor and narrative construction in the opening of the Metamorphoses.
In: Kahane, Ahuvia and Laird, Andrew eds.
Companion to the prologue to Apuleius' Metamorphoses.
Oxford: Oxford University press, pp. 256–266.
Abstract
Looking at significance of metaphor on circus trick - changing over horses at the gallop and the way this metaphor expands in a desultory way across the story and stories of the novel. Seeing the performative aspect of the image and how the reader might be manipulated by it.
| Item Type: |
Book Chapter
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| ISBN: |
0-19-815238-8, 978-0-19-815238-5 |
| Keywords: |
Apuleius;Arachne;Ass;Charite;desultoria scientiae;ears;entertainment;Florida;horses;Lucius;magic;metamorphosis;metaphors;narrators;reader response;readers |
| Academic Unit/Department: |
Arts > Classical Studies |
| Item ID: |
3579 |
| Depositing User: |
Paula James
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| Date Deposited: |
28 Jun 2006 |
| Last Modified: |
02 Dec 2010 19:50 |
| URI: |
http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/3579 |
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