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Record ID marc_columbia/Columbia-extract-20221130-007.mrc:192542517:2903
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010 $a 2001040670
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035 $a(OCoLC)ocm47717935
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040 $aDLC$cDLC$dYDX$dOrLoB-B
050 00 $aPA6217$b.A25 2002
082 00 $a809/.915$221
100 1 $aAccardo, Pasquale J.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78069349
245 14 $aThe metamorphosis of Apuleius :$bCupid and Psyche, Beauty and the Beast, King Kong /$cPasquale Accardo.
260 $aMadison [N.J.] :$bFairleigh Dickinson University Press ;$aLondon :$bAssociated University Presses,$c[2002], ©2002.
300 $a323 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 291-319) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tThe Life of Apuleius --$g2.$tThe Metamorphoses of Apuleius --$g3.$tThe Tale of Cupid and Psyche --$g4.$tThree French Versions of Beauty and the Beast --$g5.$tThe Beast Goes to the Movies --$g6.$tHappily Ever After --$gApp. 1.$tNi Amor se libra de amor --$gApp. 2.$tThe First Fairy Tale: A Retelling.
520 1 $a"The Metamorphosis of Apuleius traces two millennia of changes in the major inserted tale in the second century Metamorphoses (or Golden Ass), the only classical Latin novel to survive in a complete text. This most charming "Tale of Cupid and Psyche" was both popular in its own day and became the subject of allegorical intepretation into the Dark Ages.
520 8 $aHowever, it became lost in the Middle Ages, probably in part because of the parent novel's fairly explicit eroticism and militant paganism (not counting its possible anti-Christian jibes). Resurfacing in the Renaissance from a single surviving manuscript, it again became the subject of allegorization and spawned a large number of translations and adaptations which have continued up to the present day, with C. S.
520 8 $aLewis's Till We Have Faces being only one of the more notable recent retellings."--BOOK JACKET.
600 00 $aApuleius.$tPsyche et Cupido.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr99021054
600 00 $aApuleius$xAdaptations$xHistory and criticism.
600 00 $aApuleius$vAdaptations.
650 0 $aFairy tales$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103479
600 00 $aPsyche$c(Greek deity)$xIn literature.
600 00 $aEros$c(Greek deity)$xIn literature.
600 00 $aKing Kong$c(Fictitious character)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2018101903
650 0 $aBeauty and the beast (Tale)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85012722
650 0 $aMonsters in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85086997
852 00 $bglx$hPA6217$i.A25 2002