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...
mehr
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
Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-171) and index
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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.
