ISBN:
9783030514938
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 252 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Palgrave studies in animals and literature
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Nagai, Kaori, 1968 - Imperial beast fables
DDC:
398.2
Keywords:
Fables History and criticism
;
Animals in literature
;
Human-animal relationships in literature
;
Fables-History and criticism..
;
Animals in literature..
;
Human-animal relationships in literature
;
Electronic books
;
Englisch
;
Fabel
;
Tiere
;
Geschichte 1800-1900
Abstract:
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction: Rats in the Box -- 2 Winged Tales: The Advent of the Imperial Beast Fable -- The School of Fables -- Migration of the Beast Fable -- Nights with Brer Rabbit -- New Aesops: Imperial Beast Fables -- 3 'Once upon a Time When Animals Spoke': Theories of the Beast Fable -- The Power of the Animal Voice: Herder and Grimm -- Reynard in South Africa -- Beastly Knowledge: Tylor's Evolutionary Fable -- Reminiscences of Brute Brothers -- 4 Into the Chinese Boxes: The Jungle Books -- Stories of the Forest -- Box 1 -- Box 2 -- Box 3 -- Box 4 -- Box 5 -- Stories of the Sea -- Box 1 -- Box 2 -- Box 3 (with a hole in the side) -- 5 Kangaroo Notebook: Abe's Metatherian Journey -- Marsupial Taxonomy -- Darwin and Huxley in Australia -- Into Marsupial Pockets -- Becoming-a-Kangaroo -- 6 Animal Alphabets: Chesterton's Dog, Browning's Rats, Lear's Blue Baboon -- Animating the Alphabet -- A Man with Six Legs: Chesterton's Doggy Alphabet -- Dancing Rats -- Pied Beauty: Lear's Animal Cosmopolitanism -- 7 Fabling Cosmopolitanism: The Ark Esperanto -- The Language of Animals -- Esperanto at Sea -- The Tiger and the Shamrock: An Apologue -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
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