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• catalog abstract "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.".
• catalog contributor b10490740.
• catalog created "c1997.".
• catalog date "1997".
• catalog date "c1997.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-196) and indexes.".
• catalog description "Introduction: the fable of the fable's death -- pt. 1. An abundance of fables: Humor, satire, education -- Emblematics and vers de société -- Verse fables between piety and skepticism -- "Thank God there are no wolves in England!": fables in prose -- pt. 2. The semiotics of fable discourse: three books: Lord Lytton's Fables in song (I): the source of R.L. Stevenson's Theory of the nineteenth-century fable -- Lord Lytton's Fables in song (II): semiotic model and individual text -- Walter Crane's The baby's own Aesop: visual countertexts in a Victorian picture book -- "Let beasts bear gentle minds": fable into animal biography.".
• catalog description "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.".
• catalog extent "207 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Fables less and less fabulous.".
• catalog identifier "0874135842 (alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Fables less and less fabulous.".
• catalog issued "1997".
• catalog issued "c1997.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London : Associated University Presses,".
• catalog relation "Fables less and less fabulous.".
• catalog spatial "Great Britain".
• catalog spatial "Great Britain.".
• catalog subject "820.9/008 20".
• catalog subject "Children Books and reading Great Britain History 19th century.".
• catalog subject "Children's literature Moral and ethical aspects.".
• catalog subject "Children's literature, English History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Didactic literature, English History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Didactic literature, English Illustrations.".
• catalog subject "English literature 19th century History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "English literature 19th century Illustrations.".
• catalog subject "Fables, English History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Fables, English Illustrations.".
• catalog subject "Illustration of books 19th century Great Britain.".
• catalog subject "Illustration of books Great Britain 19th century.".
• catalog subject "PR468.F32 D64 1997".
• catalog subject "Parables History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Parables Illustrations.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: the fable of the fable's death -- pt. 1. An abundance of fables: Humor, satire, education -- Emblematics and vers de société -- Verse fables between piety and skepticism -- "Thank God there are no wolves in England!": fables in prose -- pt. 2. The semiotics of fable discourse: three books: Lord Lytton's Fables in song (I): the source of R.L. Stevenson's Theory of the nineteenth-century fable -- Lord Lytton's Fables in song (II): semiotic model and individual text -- Walter Crane's The baby's own Aesop: visual countertexts in a Victorian picture book -- "Let beasts bear gentle minds": fable into animal biography.".
• catalog title "Fables less and less fabulous : English fables and parables of the nineteenth century and their illustrations / Horst Dölvers.".
• catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "Illustrations. fast".
• catalog type "text".