Fables, Sermonettes, and Parables by The Stricker, 13th Century German Poet, in English Translation

Title

en_US Fables, Sermonettes, and Parables by The Stricker, 13th Century German Poet, in English Translation

en_US Studies in German Language and Literature, Volume 21

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Original language: gmh

en_US Translated by J.W. Thomas

Creator

en_US Stricker

Date

2016-01-25T20:04:23Z

en_US 2010-11

en_US 1999

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:04:23Z

Date Issued

en_US 1999

Abstract

en_US I have wanted to enjoy work by Der Stricker since I first read of his place in the history of fable literature perhaps two decades ago. This volume gathers seventeen works labeled fables, seven sermonettes, and twenty-one works labeled parables. I deliberately use labeled because what he calls parables are what we would call fables. Some of them are standard Aesopic fables -- like BF (85-86), CJ (91), and The Wolf and the Woman (96). The works he calls fables are slightly longer human stories usually involving a deception or a duping. There is plenty of unfaithfulness and cleverness by one spouse against another, as in The Clever Farm Hand (42). Here a clever farmhand cunningly exposes the affair a wife is having with the local priest. Each of the parables has a paragraph-length reflective moral. Several are new to me, like The Watchdog (86) about asking a dog to do a trick too often. House Dog and Hunting Dogs (88-89) offers a telling negative commment on social climbers. The Stray Falcon (89-91) is similarly a comment on the honest man among the dishonest. The Monkey and the Nut (93-94) seems close to the fable on the same subject early in Boner's Edelstein. The Wolf and the Geese is a sad tale about a wolf that wants to reform; the geese harass and mistrust him so thoroughly that he has to destroy them to stay alive (96-98). The Wolf and His Son (98-100) takes several surprising turns. In The Fly and the Bald Man (86), should not the phrase be about the poor man who wants the favor of a powerful man? The negative in here -- doesn't want -- makes no sense to me. Strangely, pages 23 and 24 are both repeated. Why should we have to pay $100 for a 109-page book like this?

Identifier

en_US 9780773482029

en_US 7228 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82502

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US The Edwin Mellen Press

en_US Lewiston, NY

Subject

en_US PT1653.A4 T46 1999

en_US Der Stricker

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole