Doorways and Diegesis: Spatial and Narrative Boundaries in Apuleius' Metamorphoses.
This article argues that the difficulties that characters in Apuleius' Metamorphoses experience at doorways symbolize, and often coincide with, the difficulties that readers experience in their attempts to negotiate the novel's diegetic boundaries. Part 1 argues that the extensive overlap between th...
| Publicado en: | Classical Philology Vol. 117; no. 4; pp. 706 - 720 |
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University of Chicago Press
Oct2022
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