English Fable - Aesop and Literary Culture, 16511740

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Between 1651 and 1740 there was in England an explosion of interest in Aesop's fables! and in the fable as a literary form. Jayne Elizabeth Lewis shows how the fable! often underestimated because of its links with popular non-literary forms! played a major role in the formation of modern English culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Lewis Jayne Elizabeth, Jayne Elizabeth Lewis, Jayne Elizabeth (University of California Lewis
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 28.03.1996
• EAN: 9780521481113
• ISBN: 978-0-521-48111-3
• Seiten: 248
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Eighteent
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft