From Aesop to Reynard
Subtitle: beast literature in medieval Britain
By: Jill Mann
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780199217687
Description: What do stories about animals have to tell us about human beings? This book analyzes the shrewd perceptions about human life - and especially human language - that emerge from narratives in which the main figures are 'talking animals'.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [326]-363) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: How animals mean; title: Marie de France: the courtly fable; title: Nigel of Longchamp's Speculum stultorum; title: The owl and the nightingale; title: Chaucerian birds; title: Reynard in England; title: Henryson: the epicized fable; title: Conclusion.