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Fables of power : Aesopian writing and political history / Annabel Patterson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Patterson, Annabel M.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Post-contemporary interventions.
- Post-contemporary interventions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aesop--Appreciation--Great Britain.
- Aesop.
- Aesop's fables--Parodies, imitations, etc.
- Aesop's fables.
- English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--16th century.
- Politics and literature.
- Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--17th century.
- Political fiction, English--History and criticism.
- Political fiction, English.
- Political poetry, English--History and criticism.
- Political poetry, English.
- Fables, Greek--Appreciation--Great Britain.
- Fables, Greek.
- Fables, English--History and criticism.
- Fables, English.
- English literature--Greek influences.
- Great Britain--Politics and government--1485-1603.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Politics and government--1603-1714.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (186 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 1991.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this imaginative and illuminating work, Annabel Patterson traces the origins and meanings of the Aesopian fable, as well as its function in Renaissance culture and subsequently. She shows how the fable worked as a medium of political analysis and communication, especially from or on behalf of the politically powerless.Patterson begins with an analysis of the legendary Life of Aesop, its cultural history and philosophical implications, a topic that involves such widely separated figures as La Fontaine, Hegel, and Vygotsky. The myth's origin is recovered here in the saving myth of Aesop the E
- Contents:
- Aesop's Life: Fathering the Fable
- Fables of Power: The Sixteenth Century
- "The Fable Is Inverted": 1628-1700
- Body Fables
- "The World Is Chang'd": 1700-2000
- Postscript.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-171) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612919770
- 9781282919778
- 1282919776
- 9780822382577
- 0822382571
- OCLC:
- 850216049
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