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Mastering Aesop: Medieval Education, Chaucer, and His Followers
- Title
- en_US Mastering Aesop: Medieval Education, Chaucer, and His Followers
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)
- en_US First edition
- en_US Edward Wheatley
- Creator
- en_US Wheatley, Edward See all items with this value
- Date
- 2016-01-25T20:14:37Z
- en_US 2001-11
- en_US 2000
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T20:14:37Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 2000
- Abstract
- en_US It is hard to believe that I have had this book eleven years! Even now I can give only an overview. Wheatley challenges readers early: we must be able to imagine an era during which fable was taken seriously as a vehicle for social, political, and religious communication (3). Wheatley's first three chapters give a broad overview of the attitudes and practices surrounding the reception and appropriation of the verse Romulus collection as a Latin curricular text (4). One great caution: All-encompassing formal definitions tell us more about our own desires to master fable than medieval reception of the literary form (5). He considers fable not as a literary genre but as a mode of discourse. Another caution: To belive that a fable is best interpreted in one particular way suggests an entrenched dogmatism which the later Middle Ages did not espouse (6). The second half of the book brings the material from the first half to bear upon the translated fables written by three medieval British vernacular writers: Chaucer, Lydgate, and Henryson. The first appendix gives selected fables in their versions by the three authors. Further appendices give Latin medieval fable texts.
- Identifier
- en_US 9780813017457 (alk. paper)
- en_US 7972 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US University Press of Florida
- en_US Gainesville, FL
- Subject
- en_US PR347.W48 2000 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