The metamorphosis of Apuleius : Cupid and Psyche, Beauty and the beast, King Kong

Author(s)

• Accardo, Pasquale J.

Bibliographic Information

The metamorphosis of Apuleius : Cupid and Psyche, Beauty and the beast, King Kong

Pasquale Accardo

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press , Associated University Presses, c2002

Note

Bibliography: p. 311-319

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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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• NCID: BA72696301
• ISBN:
  • 0838639232
• LCCN: 2001040670
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Madison [N.J.],London
• Pages/Volumes: 323 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PA6217
  • DC21 : 809/.915
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Apuleius. Psyche et Cupido
  • LCSH : Apuleius -- Adaptations -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Fairy tales -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Psyche (Greek deity) in literature
  • LCSH : Eros (Greek deity) in literature
  • LCSH : King Kong (Fictitious character)
  • LCSH : Beauty and the beast (Tale)
  • LCSH : Apuleius -- Adaptations
  • LCSH : Monsters in literature