Psyche the psychotic. Cupid and Psyche in Dr. Franz Riklin’s Wishfulfilment and Symbolism in Fairy Tales

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. List of contributors VII
4. Table of Contents IX
5. Introduction 1
6. I. Baroque and the Influence of La Fontaine
7. ‘Del soffrir degli affanni è dolce il fine’. Ancient myth and comic drama in G.F. Fusconi’s libretto (with G.F. Loredano and P. Michiel) for F. Cavalli, Amore innamorato (1642) 31
8. Apuleius at the court of Louis XIV. Psyché (1671, 1678) and its English version (1675) 47
9. How to use a wallpaper. Psyché et Cupidon—notice explicative 61
10. Psyche in the salon. French interior decoration in the eighteenth century 79
11. II. Romanticism and Philosophy
12. ‘Pensive pleasures’ in prose and poetry. Apuleius, Mary Tighe and eighteenth-century Ireland 101
13. The Platonic Ass: Thomas Taylor’s Cupid and Psyche in Context (1795–1822) 119
14. Keats’s ‘Ode to Psyche’. Psyche as poetry and inspiration 147
15. Sir Walter Scott’s Kenilworth and Apuleius’ tale of Cupid and Psyche 167
16. Kierkegaard as a reader of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses 181
17. Robert Bridges’ Eros and Psyche and its models 203
18. III. Fin de Siècle and Psychology
19. From Psyche to psyche. The interiorisation of Apuleius’ fabella in D’Annunzio, Pascoli, and Savinio 225
20. Between Symbolism and Popular Culture. Cupid and Psyche in Fin de siècle Book Illustration 247
21. Psyche the psychotic. Cupid and Psyche in Dr. Franz Riklin’s Wishfulfilment and Symbolism in Fairy Tales 273
22. Psyche and Cupid in the Novels of Charlotte M. Yonge and Sylvia Townsend Warner 289
23. IV. Twentieth Century and Modernism
24. Eudora Welty’s The Robber Bridegroom. Cupid and Psyche on the Natchez Trace 307
25. Cupid & Psyche and C.S. Lewis’ Till We Have Faces. A Christian-Platonic metamorphosis 323
26. Faulkner’s reception(s) of Apuleius’ Cupid and Psyche in The Reivers 339
27. ‘I have tried to be blind in love’. Psyche and the quest for feminine poetic autonomy in Sylvia Plath’s House of Eros 357
28. V. New Audiences
29. Cupid and Psyche for children 381
30. Cupid and Psyche on stage in the 21^st century 397
31. Undertones of Apuleius’ Cupid and Psyche in Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth 415
32. Beauty and the Beast as a myth and metaphor in the contemporary world. Looking forward with Apuleius’ fable of Cupid and Psyche 433
33. List of Figures 451
34. Index 455