The Metamorphosis of Apuleius: Cupid and Psyche, Beauty and the Beast, King KongFairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 2002 - 323 páginas Traces two millennia of changes in the tale of Cupid and Psyche, the major inserted tale in Lucius Apuleus's second-century Latin novel 'Metamorphoses' (or the Golden Ass). While folklorists have tended to deprecate the tale's affiliation with the classic French fairy tale Beauty and the Beast, it would resurface in the horror movie, King Kong, an epic retelling that is in many ways acually closer to Apuleius's original Latin. The Middle Platonic philosophic-religious allegorical interpretation of Cupid and Psyche is used to review the courses of the two later mutations. |
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The Metamorphosis of Apuleius: Cupid and Psyche, Beauty and the Beast, King Kong Pasquale J. Accardo Vista de fragmentos - 2002 |
Términos y frases comunes
Adrienne von Speyr allegory ancient ANTEO Aphrodite Apuleius Apuleius's ARSIDAS ASTREA ATAMAS Beast Beauty Beauty's beloved Books C. S. Lewis Captain Englehorn child CHORUS Christian Cnidian Cnidos Cupid and Psyche dark daughter dead death divine doth dream Enter Eros eternal exit eyes FABIO face fairy tale fate father fear flesh FLORA flowers FRISO garden girl goddess gods Golden Ass Greek hand happy heart heaven hell human husband invisible Jane King Kong Latin LIDORO light living look lover Lucius Lysias magic marriage marry Metamorphoses monster mortal mother MUSICIANS myth narrative never night novel Offstage pain palace Phaedrus play princess Psyche's queen realm remains rose sacred seemed SELENISA sisters sleep Song soul spouse story sweet Tale of Cupid Tarzan temple thee things thou thought tion trans transformed turned University Press Venus voice wanted wedding words York young
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Metamorphoses Books IV 28-35, V and VI 1-24: The Tale of ..., Volumen4;Volumen6 Apuleius,Maaike Zimmerman Vista de fragmentos - 2004 |