title: Apuleius, ‘Metamorphoses’ 1. 10: A Jeer at Conventional Magic Motifs?
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metadata.value: Keyer, Denis V.
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metadata.value: 2018-07-10T18:29:48Z
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metadata.value: 2018-07-10T18:29:48Z
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metadata.value: 2018-03
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metadata.value: Denis V. Keyer. Apuleius ‘Metamorphoses’ 1. 10: A Jeer at Conventional Magic Motifs? Philologia Classica 2018, 13(1), 96–102.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu20.2018.107
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/10388
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metadata.value: Some unusual details in Socrates’ account of Meroe’s witchcraft (Met. 1. 9–10) can presumably
  be explained as hinting at conventional shortcomings of the folktales or magic stories
  contemporary to Apuleius. (1) The surprising remark on the impossibility of digging through
  the walls of the enchanted houses might point out that popular magic stories about doors being
  jammed by witchcraft generally ignore the possibility of alternative exits. (2) The bizarre
  outcome of the house being transported to a remote city (the witch has to drop it in front of
  the town gate, since there is not enough room for it in the town) must refer to similar stories
  in which the transported house ends up amid other houses and the problem of free space is
  conventionally glossed over. (3) The oddly absurd picture of the lawyer who continues pleading
  in the shape of a ram (thus shattering the narrative illusion) may have been intended as a
  pointed criticism of certain magic stories, in which people are transformed into animals without
  a plausible link between the animal and its former human personality. The literary game
  played with the reader and zest for the self-exposure of literary convention is typical for the
  Metamorphoses, and playful hints at the narrative conventions of popular magic motifs would
  well conform with Apuleius’ manner of writing.
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Philologia Classica;Volume 13; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Apuleius
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metadata.value: Metamorphoses
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metadata.value: folklore
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: magic stories
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: narrative illusion
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Apuleius, ‘Metamorphoses’ 1. 10: A Jeer at Conventional Magic Motifs?
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metadata.value: Article
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