Die ‚grandiose Relativität‘
- Autor(en)
- Matthias Stern
- Abstrakt
Following the research on the tale about Charite‘s death in Apul. met. 8,1-14, one is able to find many and very different interpretations of its message.
In this paper I made use of a rather constructivist approach in interpreting Apuleius and developed the thesis that the author deliberately confuses his audience and thoroughly refuses to present a message of his tale. Apuleius does so by:
- purposefully loosing the tale‘s connection to the rest of the novel,
- s y s t e m a t i c a l l y establishing discordant or even contradicting pictures of his figures in intra-, extra-, and intertextual ways,
- and also by wittingly undermining the sub-narrator‘s authority.
So, if one is allowed to modify a statement of Fuhrmann‘s about Tacitus, one can allude to the story of Charite‘s death as a tale of ‚profuse relativity‘.- Organisation(en)
- Institut für Alte Geschichte und Altertumskunde, Papyrologie und Epigraphik
- Publikationsdatum
- 2010
- ÖFOS 2012
- 602029 Latinistik, 504014 Gender Studies, 602024 Klassische Philologie
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/die-grandiose-relativitat(8a6bcef3-f208-464b-84cf-f29ff757a5d1).html