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Mastering Aesop : medieval education, Chaucer, and his followers / Edward Wheatley

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Wheatley, Edward
Published
Gainesville, Fla. : University Press of Florida, 2000.
Physical Description
1 online resource (ix, 277 pages)
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Language Note
English.
Contents
1. Figuring the Fable and Its Father -- 2. Theories of Fable: Telling Truth, Fearing Falsehood -- 3. Toward a Grammar of Fable Reading in Its Pedagogical Context -- 4. Commentary Displacing Text: The Nun's Priest's Tale and the Process of Reading Curricular Fable -- 5. John Lydgate's Isopes Fabules: Appropriation through Amplification -- 6. Robert Henryson's Morall Fabillis: Reading, Enacting, and Appropriating -- Afterword: Toward the Renaissance, Beyond Latin Curricular Fable.
Summary
"In this first study of a text from the primary school canon, Edward Wheatley examines fable as a mode of discourse in its medieval curricular context and then discusses the ways in which it influenced the work of Chaucer, Lydgate, and Henryson."--Jacket
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ISBN
0813024137 (electronic bk.)
9780813024134 (electronic bk.)
0813017459 (alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-267) and indexes.
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