Le conte de Psyché et Cupidon, témoin du folklore d’Afrique du nord

Emmanuel Plantade

doi:10.5771/9783487424064

Summary

Based on approaches accepted in Classical Philology as well as on folkloristics, this book defends the theory of Émile Dermenghem, who affirms the Amazigh (“Berber”) origin of the tale of Psyche and Cupid. In North Africa, are the oral counterparts of the Latin narrative of Apuleius (ATU 425) mere traces of a European influence? Is it only by affectation that the author, born in Madauros (currently Mdaourouch), recognizes himself as “half-Numidian and half-Getulian” (Apol. 24)? Is this passage the only indication of Africanity in the work? Where did the author find the intellectual legitimacy to insert a “barbaric” tale into his novel? Is it likely that the Latin narrative generated the oral tales of North Africa? Finally, what is the part of the imperial culture and that of the provincial culture in the middle of the Metamorphoses? The answers to these questions allow the investigation to gradually reconstitute a unique poetic in its time, because it was based on the movement between Latin, Greek and African (Libyan) cultures of which Apuleius is the heir.

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Copyright year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-3-487-16413-7
ISBN-Online: 978-3-487-42406-4
Publisher: Georg Olms Verlag, Baden-Baden
Series: Spudasmata
Volume: 196
Language: German
Pages: 288
Product type: Book Titles

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 1 - 6
Abstract No access Pages 7 - 8
Introduction No access Pages 9 - 12
1. Psyché africaine : Frobenius et Dermenghem No access
2. Vers un corpus substantiel d’ATU 425 en Afrique du nord No access
3. La morphologie d’ATU 425 dans le corpus kabyle No access
4. De l’ancienneté et de la diffusion des versions africaines No access
1. Res Afrae : quatre gestes révélateurs No access
2. Quis ille ? De qui parle-t-on ? No access
3. Duel à Sabratha No access
4. Le corbeau et le chacal No access
5. L’inventio de Psyché No access
6. Comment civiliser un conte barbare ? No access
7. Les énigmes accompagnant Psyché No access
8. Charite, une héroïne grecque très africaine No access
1. Pourquoi comparer Apulée aux contes africains ? No access
2. Bilan comparatif et typologie intertextuelle No access
3. 1. Cupidon, oiseau de l’orage No access
  2. Le jardin du palais No access
  3. Le tabou visuel et sa transgression No access
  4. Les soupçons de Vénus No access
  5. L’épreuve du tri des graines No access
4. 1. Zéphyr et la visite des soeurs No access
  2. L’errance de Psyché No access
5. 1. Les ordres de la belle-mère Vénus No access
  2. L’épreuve de la toison d’or No access
  3. L’épreuve de l’eau de la montagne No access
  4. La catabase de Psyché No access
6. 1. La marâtre Vénus No access
  2. Les tristes noces No access
  3. La grossesse de Psyché No access
  4. La vengeance de Psyché No access
Conclusion No access Pages 249 - 252
Index des contes-types et des motifs folkloriques No access Pages 253 - 254
Index des notions ethnographiques et littéraires No access Pages 255 - 255
Index des passages de l’oeuvre d’Apulée No access Pages 256 - 258
Bibliographie No access Pages 259 - 288