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Author : K. Brandon Barker
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253059240
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Aesop's Fable Paradigm written by K. Brandon Barker and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Aesop's Fable Paradigm is a collection of essays that explore the cutting-edge intersection of Folklore and Science. From moralizing fables to fantastic folktales, humans have been telling stories about animals—animals who can talk, feel, think, and make moral judgments just as we do—for a very long time. In contrast, scientific studies of the mental lives of animals have professed to be investigating the nature of animal minds slowly, cautiously, objectively, with no room for fanciful tales, fables, or myths. But recently, these folkloric and scientific traditions have merged in an unexpected and shocking way: scientists have attempted to prove that at least some animal fables are actually true. These interdisciplinary chapters examine how science has targeted the well-known Aesop's fable "The Crow and the Pitcher" as their starting point. They explore the ever-growing set of experimental studies which purport to prove that crows possess an understanding of higher-order concepts like weight, mass, and even Archimedes' insight about the physics of water displacement. The Aesop's Fable Paradigm explores how these scientific studies are doomed to accomplish little more than to mirror anthropomorphic representations of animals in human folklore and reveal that the problem of folkloric projection extends far beyond the "Aesop's Fable Paradigm" into every nook and cranny of research on animal cognition.

Author : Aesop
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Æsop's Fables, with His Life written by Aesop and published by . This book was released on 1687 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Gay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fables de Gay written by John Gay and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : H. J. Blackham
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472513541
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fable as Literature written by H. J. Blackham and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-01-13 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of a curious and neglected facet of literature, in which the author traces the development and the uses of fable in Euopean literature, from Aesop and the Greeks to the revival of fable in contemporary fiction. This is the first serious study of fable in literature.

Author : Jean de La Fontaine
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252066498
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fifty Fables of La Fontaine written by Jean de La Fontaine and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents fifty verse fables by seventeenth-century poet Jean de La Fontaine in side-by-side French and English.

Author : Michael Vincent
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027217646
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Figures of the Text written by Michael Vincent and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The works of Jean de La Fontaine have invited an extraordinary variety of readings in the three centuries since their composition. By engaging selected fables and tales with contemporary notions of intertextuality, reader reception theory, and grammatology, "Figures of the Text" raises questions about what "reading La Fontaine" meant in the 17th century, and what it means today. The study integrates a theory of reading and a theory of textual production by drawing attention to those aspects of the text that figure writing and reading, for instance: scenes of reading; other modes of writing (emblems, hieroglyphics); inscriptions and epitaphs; proper names; and citation (proverbs, maxims, allusions); the relation of represented orality to textuality, of textuality to corporeality, and of textuality to the visual arts (ekphrasis); and the archaeology of textual figures, such as labyrinths, textiles, and veils.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Museum Catalogue of printed Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anne E. Duggan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350287547
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Long Eighteenth Century written by Anne E. Duggan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and societies? This volume traces the evolution of the genre over the period known as the long eighteenth century. It explores key developments including: the French fairy tale vogue of the 1690s, dominated by women authors including Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy and Marie-Jeanne Lhéritier, the fashion of the oriental tale in the early eighteenth century, launched by Antoine Galland's seminal translation of The Thousand and One Nights from Arabic into French, and the birth of European children's literature in the second half of the eighteenth century. Drawing together contributions from an international range of scholars in history, literature and cultural studies, this volume examines the intersections between diverse national tale traditions through different critical perspectives, producing an authoritative transnational history of the genre. An essential resource for researchers, scholars and students of literature, history and cultural studies, this book explores such themes and topics as: forms of the marvelous, adaptation, gender and sexuality, humans and non-humans, monsters and the monstrous, spaces, socialization, and power. A Cultural History of Fairy Tales (6-volume set) A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in Antiquity is also available as a part of a 6-volume set, A Cultural History of Fairy Tales, tracing fairy tales from antiquity to the present day, available in print, or within a fully-searchable digital library accessible through institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access (see www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com). Individual volumes for academics and researchers interested in specific historical periods are also available digitally via www.bloomsburycollections.com.

Author : Anna Maria Hong
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781946482341
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Fablesque written by Anna Maria Hong and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hybrid-genre carnivalesque of trauma and rebirth, Fablesque harnesses the power of old tales to dispel the disenchantments of women and animals in the #MeToo era. Blending fiction and myth, personal essay, prose poetry and verse, and spanning scales from local to celestial, chanelling voices of the voiceless and the mighty, Fablesque speaks to the apocalyptic moment of the present. Harnessing folktale, fairy tale, and collage, the poems embrace constraint as a starting point for liberating new content and for addressing constructions and intersections of gender, race, power, and time

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Total Pages : 1424 pages
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Download or read book Biographie Universelle, Ancienne Et Moderne written by and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 1424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: