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Fables of power Aesopian writing and political history

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  • "In this imaginative and illuminating work, Annabel Patterson traces the origins and meanings of the Aesopian fable, as well as its function in Renaissance culture and subsequently. She shows how the fable worked as a medium of political analysis and communications, especially from or on behalf of the politically powerless. Patterson begins with an analysis of the legendary Life of Aesop, its cultural history and philosophical implications, a topic that involves such widely separated figures as La Fontaine, Hegel, and Vygotsky. The myth's origin is recovered here in the saving myth of Aesop the Ethiopian, black, ugly, who began as a slave but became both free and influential, a source of political wisdom. She then traces the early modern history of the fable from Caxton, Lydgate, and Henryson through the eighteenth century, focusing on such figures as Spenser, Sidney, Lyly, Shakespeare, and Milton, as well as the lesser-known John Ogilby, Sir Roger L'Estrange, and Samuel Croxall. Patterson discusses the famous fable of The Belly of the Members, which, because it articulated in symbolic terms some of the most intransigent problems in political philosophy and practice, was still going strong as aa symbolic text in the mid-nineteenth century, where it is focused on industrial relations by Karl Marx and by George Eliot against electoral reform. Fables of Power offers a major contribution to the fields of Renaissance studies, literary history, and cultural studies generally. -- from back cover."

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  • "History"
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  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"
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