Apuleius

Standard Name: Apuleius

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Intertextuality and Influence Marina Warner
The work was based on The Golden Ass, by the classical satirist Apuleius .
Moseley, Merritt, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 194. Gale Research.
194: 287
Intertextuality and Influence Sylvia Townsend Warner
The novel is a retelling of the story of Cupid and Psyche (or Love and the Soul) by Apuleius , with names and characteristics transposed to Victorian England. The heroine is a young orphan who...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Tighe
MT 's prose preface acknowledges her debt, early in the poem, to Apuleius ' version of the Psyche story. She says she chose the Spenserian stanza because she loved Spenser ; she found it difficult...
Intertextuality and Influence Michèle Roberts
MR became obsessed with the story of Psyche and Eros after reading The Golden Ass by Apuleius . What she wanted to write about Psyche (to whom she ascribes the agency in her desire) was...

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1756: Jeanne Le Prince de Beaumont published Le...

Writing climate item

1756

Jeanne Le Prince de Beaumont published Le Magasin des enfants, a collection containing the first influential and literary formulation of the popular fairy storyBeauty and the Beast.

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