Item
Fables of Power: Aesopian Writing and Political History
- Title
- en_US Fables of Power: Aesopian Writing and Political History
- en_US Post-Contemporary Interventions
- Description
- en_US Annabel Patterson
- Creator
- en_US Patterson, Annabel M. See all items with this value
- Date
- 2016-01-25T20:16:26Z
- en_US 1996-06
- en_US 1991
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T20:16:26Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1991
- Abstract
- en_US This book was my on-the-train reading on a trip across the country to start a Santa Clara sabbatical in August of 1996. As the back cover indicates, She shows how the fable worked as a medium of political analysis and communication, especially from or on behalf of the politically powerless. In a good review in Modern Philology (Vol. 91, No. 4, May, 1994, 546-49), Anne Lake Prescott of Barnard finds much to praise and a few things to criticize in this short book of some 177 pages. She highlights one of Patterson's achieved purposes, to show the conflicting ways in which the Aesopian fable served intellectually interesting political analysis (549). Patterson works through Caxton, Lydgate, and Henryson and focusses on literary figures like Spenser, Sidney, Lyly, Shakespeare, and Milton. She pays attention to Ogilby, L'Estrange, and Croxall. Some of her most revealing work may be on The Belly and the Members. As Prescott writes, Patterson studies how this one fable is turned, twisted, retroped, and turned belly-up or belly-down as political pressures reform and revive it (547).
- Identifier
- en_US 9780822311188 (paper)
- en_US 8346 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Duke University Press
- en_US Durham
- Subject
- en_US PR428.P6 P38 1991 See all items with this value
- en_US Secondary 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