Item
Fables on Four Modern and Four Ancient Sciences.
- Title
- en_US Fables on Four Modern and Four Ancient Sciences.
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)
- en_US George G. Haydu
- Creator
- en_US Haydu, George G. See all items with this value
- Date
- 2016-01-25T16:07:45Z
- en_US 1992-04
- en_US 1970
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T16:07:45Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1970
- Abstract
- en_US A strange collection of eight short prose pieces, written by a polymath and curiously divided. The two I could best identify with are the third and fourth. The third, on psychiatry, is The Frog Who Got Too Big for His Breeches. Nothing can help Freddie the Frog until the psychiatrist prescribes a swelled head, the perfect balance for his problem of being overbig for his breeches. The next story, on poetics, speaks of a leaf that wants to be free of its tree and fly like a bird. I find this book difficult because of its shifting tone: sophomoric, satiric, poetic. Fable here means didactic narrative, but the teaching process is flawed, I think.
- Identifier
- en_US 828312702
- en_US 1828 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Branden Press
- en_US Boston, MA
- Subject
- en_US PS3558.A829 F33 1970 See all items with this value
- en_US Haydu See all items with this value
- en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books