...This chapter discusses the different fables that were written by Voltaire, such as Zadig, La Princesse de Babylone, and Candide. It shows how the Voltairian conte is able to undermine and mock the different ‘fables’ of reason...

...This chapter reviews the various ways in which the shared bodiliness of humans and animals has been shown to haunt medieval texts and images. Further avenues for research are suggested, such as the role of animal lore and fables in collections of exempla, or the grotesquely blended bodies...

... of emblems, the Hécatomgraphie, his collaboration with Holbein that yielded Les simulachres, or even his two volumes of Fables translated from Aesop are pertinent as they are nonetheless open to reading that can go both heavenward and back down to earth. emblem book Apian...

...Katsui analyzes one of Hemingway’s fables as crucial for its use of food and drink as a theme to the narrative. To Katsui, food and drink is central to the feeling of “belonging,” of being an insider in the exclusive Venice society. Choice of food and drink reveals the values of a character...

...In chapter 2, the relationships of fabliaux to other types of works, particularly fables, reveal the generic specificity of the fabliau form as well as the interwoven structure of the system of genres in medieval literature. MS BNF 2173 offers an exemplary case, it is argued, of the manuscript...

...This chapter explores literary debates about the contractual nature of sovereign relations in a set of literary texts about wolves: saints’ lives in which wolves submit miraculously to human mastery; Marie de France’s fables, in which wolves contemplate the advantages of domestication; and Marie's...

... England. This chapter concerns the Anglo-Hebrew grammarian and poet Berekhiah ha-Nakdan, who composed, among other works, a translation of Adelard of Bath’s Natural Questions and a collection of beast fables, translated from Latin and French sources. The Fox Fables...

... desirable in Europe and was imitated there, but had Islamic roots. Aesop arts diffusion China fasces Genghis Khan Guomindang Mussolini Benito Republic of China Roman Empire The Secret History of the Mongols Tolstoy Leo Alexander the Great Buddhism cultural diffusion fables folk tales Greece...

...This chapter examines language use in Marie de France's Fables. It suggests that the basic material of the fable gains the resonance of a didactic tale alongside the dit, beau dit, mots, beaux mots...

...This chapter analyzes the key issues explored in Marie de France's Espurgatoire Seint Patriz. It suggests that this work resolved most of the unresolved issues in Lais and Fables and it the most theoretically sophisticated work of a self...

...This book offers a fundamental reconception of the person generally assumed to be the first woman writer in French, the author known as Marie de France. It considers all of the writing ascribed to Marie, including her famous Lais, her 103 animal fables, and the earliest vernacular...

...This chapter examines Berekhiah ha-Nakdan's Dodi ve-Nekhdi (Uncle and Nephew) and Mishle Shuʻalim (Fox Fables). Both are Hebrew translations: the first is a translation of Adelard of Bath's scientific and medical treatise...

.... It also discusses poetic economy, poetic morals, and poetic politics in relation to a mythological canon that Vico articulates in terms of the pursuits that establish civil society. Finally, it explores Vico’s notion of divine and heroic history within the context of three epitomes or fables that convey...

...This chapter focuses on one of the fables collected and revised by the Roman grammarian Hyginus (d. ad 17) that proved to be particularly relevant among later poets and philosophers. The brief tale relates how Cura—a personification of “care,” “concern,” “anxiety,” or “trouble”—formed...

...This chapter returns to the Hyginus fable with which this study began in order to specify further the semantic ramifications of Latin cura, and hence securitas. The Hyginus fable insists that care should possess mankind—Cura eum possideat—which...

...This chapter studies Lu Xun's affinity for the so-called “literatures of enchantment”—fables, myths, and supernatural tales. While initially invoking the magical and otherworldly, his revisions of old fables almost invariably reveal a world similar to that of his earlier vernacular stories, a world...

...2020 ‘Farfetched’ focuses on the end of George Bernard Shaw’s life and his own sense of his legacy. In crafting the title of the 1948 allegorical digest of his beliefs Farfetched Fables, Shaw selects the adjective ‘farfetched’ to describe the breadth of its mythic vision. The word...

... Hebrew imitation of the Arabic makam literature, i.e. a romantic collection of stories attached to a main theme. His book is in rhymed prose interspersed with short poems, and contains popular fables as well as long dissertations on medical and anatomical details. The chapter...

.... authorship Breton Chrétien de Troyes Clemence of Barking England English Espurgatoire Seint Patrice L’ Evrat medieval writer Fables French Lais collection attributed to Marie de France manuscripts Marie de France medieval writer memory multilingualism name translatability translation...

... devaluation social media Aesop’s fables Driving my sons to the beach on a hot summer day used to be a chore. Although the beach was only an hour away, they would complain the entire way—about each other, about the heat, about the music, about everything! Their subsequent discovery of TikTok and Instagram...