Bestia : yearbook of the Beast Fable Society
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Bestia : yearbook of the Beast Fable Society
John Benjamins Pub. Co., c1992
- v. 4 : Eur
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This volume contains papers from the 40th International Congress held in Margarita Island and Caracas, May 25-June 1, 1991
ISBN for Eur.: 9027234019; for U.S.A.: 1556194757
Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Bestia presents articles dealing with the beast fable and its sister genres in all literatures, languages and periods. It yearly publishes a selection of the most distinguished papers read at the annual International Congress of the Beast Fable Society. The present volume contains papers from the Fourth International Congress (Margarita Island and Caracas, May 25-June 1 1991).
Subscriptions to Bestia: Yearbook of the International Beast Fable Society are invited.
Table of Contents
- 1. The Fable and the Anti-fable: The Modern Faces of Aesop (by Carnes, Pack)
- 2. Fables of Pasiphae, or On Vaccination and Vaccimulgence (by Shell, Marc)
- 3. John Oldham's Satiric Poetry and the Beast Fable (by Barnes, Betsy K.)
- 4. Samuel Johnson: Beast Fabulist and Satirist on Mankind (by Tierney, Thomas)
- 5. From Apuleius to A* R* Wallace: Evolutionary Theory and Some Literary Animals and Insects (by Spooner, David)
- 6. Eating Crow: Rousseau on the Fable (by Shell, Susan)
- 7. Horace's and Today's Town and Country Mice (by Carlson, Gregory I.)
- 8. Sacramental Relationships in Kenneth Rexroth's A Bestiary (by Leavens, Dennis)
- 9. Moral Imperialism in the Ramayana (by Altano, W. Brian)
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