Fables Less And Less Fabulous

Author : Horst Dölvers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fables Less and Less Fabulous written by Horst Dölvers and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines more than one hundred fables in prose and verse, most of them original in content, some highly original in form. Author Horst Dolvers refutes the assumption that the fable declined in popularity after 1800 and the days of La Fontaine, Swift, Gay, and Lessing. Most of the texts studied in this book are taken from Victoria collections and poetry anthologies, and are presumably unknown. An extensive documentation presents verse fables according to the different functions they served - in humor, satire, and education, religious and philosophical speculation, and as drawing-room entertainment full of erotic innuendo. Mere stock-taking is not this book's intent, however. Its second part focuses on three Victorian books, applying semiotics (including theories of discourse). A review essay of Lord Lytton's Fables in Song (1874) by Robert Louis Stevenson contains perceptive remarks on the "post-Darwinian fable," a newly developing variant turning away from "old stories of wise animals or foolish men" to confront "truths that are a matter of bitter concern." Lytton's reveries deserve rediscovery as narratives that skillfully manipulate their readers by a hierachical ordering of discourses - nudging them into ideological positions that, to many readers, must have appeared commonsensical. At the same time, they tend to sap the complacencies of common sense. A picture book by Walter Crane, an Aesop in limericks (1887), shows the illustrator's art as no less Houdinian. Finally, Anna Sewell's children's classic Black Beauty, if simple, should be read as anything but plain; its speaking silences make the reader feel that man and beast are divided rather than united by their ability to communicate. The horses, shown as capable of speaking like humans, do not share man's multiplicity of discourses - nor consequently, the duplicity resulting from their use.

Author : Ambrose Bierce
Publisher : Castrovilli Giuseppe
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fantastic Fables written by Ambrose Bierce and published by Castrovilli Giuseppe. This book was released on 1898 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ann Tatlock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781624690563
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fabulous Fables written by Ann Tatlock and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step into a world of wonder and learning in these enduring fables of ancient Greece. You'll come face to face with the wrath of the Olympian gods. You'll meet unforgettable characters with all-too-human shortcomings, including the conceited Narcissus, the greedy King Midas, and the disobedient Icarus. Come, listen and learn as their choices lead to some surprising outcomes.

Author : Richard J. Hill
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317062175
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Robert Louis Stevenson and the Pictorial Text written by Richard J. Hill and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Louis Stevenson and the Pictorial Text explores the genesis, production and the critical appreciation of the illustrations to the fiction of Robert Louis Stevenson. Stevenson is one of the most copied and interpreted authors of the late nineteenth century, especially his novels Treasure Island and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. These interpretations began with the illustration of his texts in their early editions, often with Stevenson’s express consent, and this book traces Stevenson’s understanding and critical responses to the artists employed to illustrate his texts. In doing so, it attempts to position Stevenson as an important thinker and writer on the subject of illustrated literature, and on the marriage of literature and visual arts, at a moment preceding the dawn of cinema, and the rejection of such popular tropes by modernist writers of the early twentieth century.

Author : David Eden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139828479
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Gilbert and Sullivan written by David Eden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-06 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memorable melodies and fanciful worlds – the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan remain as popular today as when they were first performed. This Companion provides a timely guide to the history and development of the collaboration between the two men, including a fresh examination of the many myths and half-truths surrounding their relationship. Written by an international team of specialists, the volume features a personal account from film director Mike Leigh on his connection with the Savoy Operas and the creation of his film Topsy-Turvy. Starting with the early history of the operatic stage in Britain, the Companion places the operas in their theatrical and musical context, investigating the amateur performing tradition, providing new perspectives on the famous patter songs and analysing their dramatic and operatic potential. Perfect for enthusiasts, performers and students of Gilbert and Sullivan's enduring work, the book examines their legacy and looks forward to the future.

Author : Alexander Spiers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dictionnaire général français-anglais written by Alexander Spiers and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Aesop
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781853261282
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aesop's Fables written by Aesop and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1994 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of animal fables told by the Greek slave Aesop.

Author : Valerie Shaw
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317872789
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Short Story written by Valerie Shaw and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-21 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout this text, Valerie Shaw addresses two key questions: 'What are the special satisfactions afforded by reading short stories?' and 'How are these satisfactions derived from each story's literary techniques and narrative strategies?'. She then attempts to answer these questions by drawing on stories from different periods and countries - by authors who were also great novelists, like Henry James, Flaubert, Kafka and D.H. Lawrence; by authors who specifically dedicated themselves to the art of the short story, like Kipling, Chekhov and Katherine Mansfield; by contemporary practitioners like Angela Carter and Jorge Luis Borges; and by unfairly neglected writers like Sarah Orne Jewett and Joel Chandler Harris.

Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays, literary & critical written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alexander Spiers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dictionnaire général anglais-français written by Alexander Spiers and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: