Fables

Title

en_US Fables

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Signed by Yvonne Mitchell, #60 of the signed, limited edition

en_US Yvonne Mitchell

Creator

en_US Mitchell, Yvonne See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US With Illustrations by Bert Hollander

Date

2016-01-25T19:02:59Z

en_US 2000-01

en_US 1977

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:02:59Z

Date Issued

en_US 1977

Abstract

en_US The flyleaf proclaims These are fables for adults in the tradition of Aesop but without a moral. Rather they accept human nature as it is, and offer no advice. The statements are accurate. The texts here are generally longer and more developed than fables. They do have a strong emblematic quality. If I were to write about them, I would title my essay Dysfunction Revealed because that is the effect of Mitchell's fables. In the second offering of seventeen, a kind king leaves beggars waiting until they starve and children waiting to play until they have grown up (7). Mitchell here catches the Lauf der Welt that Luther saw and expressed in fables. In a strong display of egocentrism, the White Knight on the fat black pony thinks only of himself and sees Christ as forgiving the pony for the knight's sake (11). The son who wants to go off and fight a dragon eventually tells his fearful mother that he will sacrifice his ambition for her and remind her of it the rest of her days (13). The pigeon trying to cross the street is sure that the pedestrians have conspired to stop him (45), since they keep moving whenever he starts to cross. The pessimism is relieved only once, I think, namely in The Boy and the Wolf (43), in which the wolf whom the boy has feared ends up protecting the boy. The art is not as good, I believe, as the texts. The illustration on 40 is disfigured by someone's addition of a bit of color. This book is almost square, and the cover-design and title-design play with that fact by building concentric squares out of the title and the author.

Identifier

en_US 0904790037

en_US 4152 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79476

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Mid Northumberland Arts Group

en_US Ashington

Subject

en_US PR6063.I83 F3 1977 See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole