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.

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)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/83578

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Duke University Press

en_US Durham

Subject

en_US PR428.P6 P38 1991

en_US Secondary

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole