{"product_id":"9781350194878","title":"Faulkner’s Reception of Apuleius’ The Golden Ass in The Reivers","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eFaulkner’s Reception of Apuleius’ The Golden Ass in The Reivers\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Vernon L. Provencal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFaulkner's final novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Reivers\u003c\/i\u003e, has been gently dismissed by scholars and critics as no more than its subtitle claims,\u003ci\u003e A Reminiscence\u003c\/i\u003e. Although the new millennium has seen a new appreciation for Faulkner's later novels, \u003ci\u003eThe Reivers\u003c\/i\u003e is still perceived as a slightly fictionalized comic memoir romanticizing the early life of the author in the pre-civil rights American South. This volume takes this dismissal of \u003ci\u003eThe Reivers\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Vernon L. Provencal studies the reception of \u003ci\u003eThe Golden Ass\u003c\/i\u003e in \u003ci\u003eThe Reivers\u003c\/i\u003e as comic novels of moral \u003ci\u003ekatabasis\u003c\/i\u003e (wilful descent into the lawless underworld) and providential \u003ci\u003eanabasis\u003c\/i\u003e (societal and spiritual redemption). As the independent basis of the reception study, \u003ci\u003eThe Reivers\u003c\/i\u003e receives its first ever detailed reading, while \u003ci\u003eThe Golden Ass\u003c\/i\u003e is read anew from the teleological perspective offered by the (undervalued) prophecy that in the end the comic hero would become the book itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781350194878\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40829699064014,"sku":"9781350194878","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_456debef-e40e-4333-a62a-e6b146204686.jpg?v=1643278769","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781350194878","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}