This book aims to account for that stability. It ask what about fables encouraged their survival, indeed their proliferation, in a contentious and transitional age. It ask what about that age, impatient with so many longstanding genres, disposed it so kindly toward Aesop's fables the most ancient and, in their unvarying division between story and moral, the most rigid of symbolic forms.
This book aims to account for that stability. It ask what about fables encouraged their survival, indeed their proliferation, in a contentious and transitional age. It ask what about that age, impatient with so many longstanding genres, disposed it so kindly toward Aesop's fables the most ancient and, in their unvarying division between story and moral, the most rigid of symbolic forms.
Acknowledgments Introduction: The English fable 1. Aesopiean examples: the English fable collection and its authors, 1651-1740 2. 'The first pieces of wit': Augustan fable theory and the birth of the book 3. Common and uncommon characters: the lives of Aesop 4. Brutal transactions, 'mysterious writ': Aesop's fables and Dryden's later poetry 5. In her 'transparent Laberynth': obstructions of poetic justice in Anne Finch's fables 6. Risking contradiction: John Gay's Fables and the matter of reading 7. The moral Notes Bibliography Index.
Acknowledgments Introduction: The English fable 1. Aesopiean examples: the English fable collection and its authors, 1651-1740 2. 'The first pieces of wit': Augustan fable theory and the birth of the book 3. Common and uncommon characters: the lives of Aesop 4. Brutal transactions, 'mysterious writ': Aesop's fables and Dryden's later poetry 5. In her 'transparent Laberynth': obstructions of poetic justice in Anne Finch's fables 6. Risking contradiction: John Gay's Fables and the matter of reading 7. The moral Notes Bibliography Index.
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