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Author Snodgrass, Mary Ellen.

Title Encyclopedia of fable / Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Published Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, [1998]
©1998

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Description xvi, 451 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Series ABC-CLIO literary companion
ABC-CLIO literary companion.
Summary The Encyclopedia of Fable explores the regional and formal traditions that make up this rich, folk-created canon, as well as fables by literary masters such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Kipling, Rumi, and Goethe. The author recounts and explores the context of classic stories of foolish errors, social blunders, and personal overreaching by the world's favorite rascals and dolts: Anansi, Till Eulenspiegel, Brer Bear, Ysengrim, Simple, El-ahrairah, and Chauntecleer. She also examines trickster lore, cruelty jokes, admonitory tales, allegories, fabliaux, and pourquoi stories and analyzes an armload of classic fables including Aesop's fables, Animal Farm, the Brer Rabbit tales, the Canterbury Tales, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the fables of Marie de France, Old Man Coyote stories, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", A Thousand and One Nights, and Watership Down
Fable is not only one of the most popular, enduring literary forms ever imagined: it is also one of the most democratic. Over four millennia, in cultures throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the New World, these witty, instructive tales have been created by anonymous peasants and slaves, fireside griots, kahunas, and storytellers
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-435) and index
Subject Fables -- Encyclopedias.
Genre/Form Encyclopedias.
LC no. 98046845
ISBN 1576070263 (alk. paper)
Other Titles Fable