The Metamorphoses of Cupid and Psyche in Plato, Apuleius, Origen, and Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Wright, Constance S.
The Metamorphoses of Cupid and Psyche in Plato, Apuleius, Origen, and Chaucer
- Published
- Constance S. Wright and Julia Bolton Holloway, eds. Tales Within Tales: Apuleius Through Time: Essays in Honor of Professor Emeritus Richard J. Schoeck (New York: AMS Press, 2000), pp. 55-72.
- Description
- Compares depictions of Cupid and Psyche in Plato's Phaedrus, Apuleius's Metamorphoses, Origen's Commentary on the Song of Songs, and ClT (Walter and Griselda), noting their different constructions of gender and viewing them as reflections of different cultures. Since virginity is not analogous to the virtues affirmed at the end of ClT, the moralization ill suits the plot and reflects male desire to control female sexuality.
- Alternative Title
- Tales Within Tales: Apuleius Through Time: Essays in Honor of Professor Emeritus Richard J. Schoeck.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.