| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 277 pages) |
| Contents |
1. Figuring the Fable and Its Father -- 2. Theories of Fable: Telling Truth, Fearing Falsehood -- 3. Toward a Grammar of Fable Reading in Its Pedagogical Context -- 4. Commentary Displacing Text: The Nun's Priest's Tale and the Process of Reading Curricular Fable -- 5. John Lydgate's Isopes Fabules: Appropriation through Amplification -- 6. Robert Henryson's Morall Fabillis: Reading, Enacting, and Appropriating -- Afterword: Toward the Renaissance, Beyond Latin Curricular Fable |
| Summary |
"In this first study of a text from the primary school canon, Edward Wheatley examines fable as a mode of discourse in its medieval curricular context and then discusses the ways in which it influenced the work of Chaucer, Lydgate, and Henryson."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-267) and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Nun's priest's tale.
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Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451? -- Knowledge -- Literature
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Henryson, Robert, 1430?-1506? Morall fabillis of Esope the Phrygian.
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| SUBJECT |
Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451? fast |
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Aesop's fables. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81128830
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Aesop's fables fast |
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Morall fabillis of Esope the Phrygian (Henryson, Robert) fast |
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Nun's priest's tale (Chaucer, Geoffrey) fast |
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English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
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Fables, Greek -- Adaptations -- History and criticism
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English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Greek influences
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Fables, English -- History and criticism
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Education, Medieval -- Great Britain
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Animals in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Animals in literature
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Literature
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Education, Medieval
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English literature -- Middle English
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Fables, English
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Fables, Greek -- Adaptations
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Bellettrie.
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Middelengels.
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Fabels.
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Onderwijs.
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English.
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Languages & Literatures.
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English Literature.
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
99056399 |
| ISBN |
0813024137 |
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9780813024134 |
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