Satiric Fable in English: A Critical Study of the Animal Tales of Chaucer, Spenser, Dryden and Orwell

Title

en_US Satiric Fable in English: A Critical Study of the Animal Tales of Chaucer, Spenser, Dryden and Orwell

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US By Rama Rani Lall

Creator

en_US Lall, Rama Rani See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T20:14:29Z

en_US 1997-04

en_US 1979

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:14:29Z

Date Issued

en_US 1979

Abstract

en_US This is a comparative study of five works: Chaucer's The Nun's Priest's Tale; Spenser's Mother Hubberds Tale; Dryden's The Hind and the Panther; Gay's fables; and Orwell's Animal Farm. In the preface, the author admits that Gay does not really belong in this study, but his fables are too important to omit him. What is satiric fable? We may define the satiric fable as a humorous allegorical tale of varying length in prose or verse, having animal characters, whose actions serve as a basis for satirizing existing persons, policies or institutions. If in the tale the narrator slyly points the finger of scorn and ridicule at the world as it too often is, the world of self-interest, greed and cunning, the result is a satiric fable (4). Satiric fables, like the stories about Brer Rabbit, are to be distinguished from moral fables, like the fables of Aesop. Some will have questions to raise here about the length of some of the fables that Lall considers.

Identifier

en_US 7951 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/83202

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Distributed by Humanities Press

en_US Atlantic Highlands, NJ

Subject

en_US PR149.A7 L3 1979 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