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Mastering Aesop : medieval education, Chaucer, and his followers / Edward Wheatley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wheatley, Edward.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Nun's priest's tale.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey.
- Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?--Knowledge--Literature.
- Lydgate, John.
- Henryson, Robert, 1430?-1506? Morall fabillis of Esope the Phrygian.
- Henryson, Robert.
- Aesop's fables.
- English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Fables, Greek--Adaptations--History and criticism.
- Fables, Greek.
- English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--Greek influences.
- Fables, English--History and criticism.
- Fables, English.
- Education, Medieval--Great Britain.
- Education, Medieval.
- Animals in literature.
- Aesop--Appreciation--Great Britain.
- Aesop.
- Aesop--Influence.
- English literature--Greek influences.
- English literature--History and criticism--Middle English, 1100-1500--Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 277 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville, Fla. : University Press of Florida, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "In this first study of a text from the primary school canon, Edward Wheatley examines fable as a mode of discourse in its medieval curricular context and then discusses the ways in which it influenced the work of Chaucer, Lydgate, and Henryson."--Jacket.
- Contents:
- 1. Figuring the Fable and Its Father
- 2. Theories of Fable: Telling Truth, Fearing Falsehood
- 3. Toward a Grammar of Fable Reading in Its Pedagogical Context
- 4. Commentary Displacing Text: The Nun's Priest's Tale and the Process of Reading Curricular Fable
- 5. John Lydgate's Isopes Fabules: Appropriation through Amplification
- 6. Robert Henryson's Morall Fabillis: Reading, Enacting, and Appropriating
- Afterword: Toward the Renaissance, Beyond Latin Curricular Fable.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 0-8130-2413-7
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