Fables of Power - Aesopian Writing and Political History

This book describes the Aesopian fable as a hitherto underestimated function in renaissance culture and subsequently. Partly thanks to their traditions of origin--how fables came to be written, by whom, and why--traditions which (whether or not they believed them) were deeply interesting to sixteenth- and seventeenth- century readers, the stories of beasts, the birds, the trees, and the insects quickly acquired or recovered their function as a medium of political analysis and communication.

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Annabel Patterson

Riassunto

Traces the origins and meanings of the Aesopian fable, as well as its function in Renaissance culture and subsequently. The author shows how the fable worked as a medium of political analysis and communication, especially from or on behalf of the politically powerless.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Annabel Patterson, Patterson, Annabel Patterson
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 26.03.1991
• EAN: 9780822311065
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-1106-5
• Pagine: 184
• Peso: 499 g
• Illustrazioni: 8 b&w illustrations
• Serie: Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention; Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; Politik und Staat