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

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)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/83223

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US University Press of Florida

en_US Gainesville, FL

Subject

en_US PR347.W48 2000

en_US Secondary

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole