Previous selves : body and narrative in Aelius Aristides' hieroi logoi and Apuleius' metamorphoses
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Aelius Aristides' Hieroi Logoi and Apuleius' Metamorphoses stage prolonged encounters with the failure or refusal of one's own body to function in its capacity as a vehicle for self-presentation -- an especially important function for orators of the second century CE. Both texts explore the degree to which language can remake the narrator's fragmented world. Whereas Aristides' Hieroi Logoi contribute to the orator's healing process, Apuleius' Metamorphoses uses the imagined animal body to demonstrate the elusive nature of constituting a whole self. Throughout his Hieroi Logoi, Aristides employs metaphors to solicit his audience's participation in reconfiguring his relationship to his body and his god. Apuleius' Metamorphoses, on the other hand, dramatizes a paradox: the protagonist, Lucius, achieves his goal of literary memorialization in the form of the book we hold, and yet the self that is on display is ultimately lost to the reader.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2016 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Brod, Artemis L |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Classics. |
| Primary advisor | Parker, Grant Richard, 1967- |
| Primary advisor | Stephens, Susan A |
| Thesis advisor | Parker, Grant Richard, 1967- |
| Thesis advisor | Stephens, Susan A |
| Thesis advisor | Gleason, Maud W, 1954- |
| Thesis advisor | Nightingale, Andrea Wilson |
| Advisor | Gleason, Maud W, 1954- |
| Advisor | Nightingale, Andrea Wilson |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Artemis L. Brod. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Classics. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2016. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2016 by Artemis Leah Brod
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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