Faulkner’s Reception of Apuleius’ The Golden Ass in The Reivers

ISBN: 9781350005983 出版年：2020 页码：233 Vernon L Provencal Bloomsbury Publishing

Faulkner's posthumous novel, The Reivers, hdismissed by scholars and critics as no more than its subtitle claims, A Reminiscence. Although the new millennium has seen a new appreciation for Faulkner's later novels, The Reivers is still perceived as a slightly fictionalized comic memoir romanticizing the earauthor in the pre-civil rights American Souttakes this dismissal of The Reivers to task for failing to appreciate its employment of the Apuleian narrative of life-altering metamorphosis to offer, as his literary farewell, hope for humanity's self-redemption. Vernon L. Provencal studies the reception of The Golden Ass in The Reivers as comic novels of moral katabasis (wilful descent into the lawless underworld) and providential anabasis (societal and spiritual redemption). As the independent basis of the reception study, The Reivers receives its first ever detailed reading, while The Golden Ass is read anew from the teleological perspective offered by the (undervalued) propheend the comic hero would become the book itself.