Fables Less and Less Fabulous - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fables Less and Less Fabulous write by Horst Dölvers. This book was released on 1997. Fables Less and Less Fabulous available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study examines more than one hundred fables in prose and verse, most of them original in content, some highly original in form. Author Horst Dolvers refutes the assumption that the fable declined in popularity after 1800 and the days of La Fontaine, Swift, Gay, and Lessing. Most of the texts studied in this book are taken from Victoria collections and poetry anthologies, and are presumably unknown. An extensive documentation presents verse fables according to the different functions they served - in humor, satire, and education, religious and philosophical speculation, and as drawing-room entertainment full of erotic innuendo. Mere stock-taking is not this book's intent, however. Its second part focuses on three Victorian books, applying semiotics (including theories of discourse). A review essay of Lord Lytton's Fables in Song (1874) by Robert Louis Stevenson contains perceptive remarks on the "post-Darwinian fable," a newly developing variant turning away from "old stories of wise animals or foolish men" to confront "truths that are a matter of bitter concern." Lytton's reveries deserve rediscovery as narratives that skillfully manipulate their readers by a hierachical ordering of discourses - nudging them into ideological positions that, to many readers, must have appeared commonsensical. At the same time, they tend to sap the complacencies of common sense. A picture book by Walter Crane, an Aesop in limericks (1887), shows the illustrator's art as no less Houdinian. Finally, Anna Sewell's children's classic Black Beauty, if simple, should be read as anything but plain; its speaking silences make the reader feel that man and beast are divided rather than united by their ability to communicate. The horses, shown as capable of speaking like humans, do not share man's multiplicity of discourses - nor consequently, the duplicity resulting from their use.
Fabulous Fables
Fabulous Fables - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fabulous Fables write by Ann Tatlock. This book was released on 2014. Fabulous Fables available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Step into a world of wonder and learning in these enduring fables of ancient Greece. You'll come face to face with the wrath of the Olympian gods. You'll meet unforgettable characters with all-too-human shortcomings, including the conceited Narcissus, the greedy King Midas, and the disobedient Icarus. Come, listen and learn as their choices lead to some surprising outcomes.
Aesop's Fables
Aesop's Fables - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Aesop's Fables write by Aesop. This book was released on 1994. Aesop's Fables available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A collection of animal fables told by the Greek slave Aesop.
The Donkey and the Cat
The Donkey and the Cat - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Donkey and the Cat write by . This book was released on 2006-01-01. The Donkey and the Cat available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Short Story
The Short Story - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Short Story write by Valerie Shaw. This book was released on 2014-07-21. The Short Story available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Throughout this text, Valerie Shaw addresses two key questions: 'What are the special satisfactions afforded by reading short stories?' and 'How are these satisfactions derived from each story's literary techniques and narrative strategies?'. She then attempts to answer these questions by drawing on stories from different periods and countries - by authors who were also great novelists, like Henry James, Flaubert, Kafka and D.H. Lawrence; by authors who specifically dedicated themselves to the art of the short story, like Kipling, Chekhov and Katherine Mansfield; by contemporary practitioners like Angela Carter and Jorge Luis Borges; and by unfairly neglected writers like Sarah Orne Jewett and Joel Chandler Harris.
