Bestia

Yearbook of the Beast Fable Society

Volume 4 (1992)

Editor

Benjamin Bennani | Northeast Missouri State University

Paperback – Available

ISBN 9789027234018 (Eur) | EUR 68.00

ISBN 9781556194757 (USA) | USD 102.00

e-Journal – Available

| EUR 60.00

Bestia presents articles dealing with the beast fable and its sister genres in all literatures, languages and periods. It yearly publishes a selection of the most distinguished papers read at the annual International Congress of the Beast Fable Society. The present volume contains papers from the Fourth International Congress (Margarita Island and Caracas, May 25-June 1 1991).
Subscriptions to Bestia: Yearbook of the International Beast Fable Society are invited.

[Bestia, 4] 1992. 138 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/bestia.4

Table of Contents

The Fable and the Anti-fable: The Modern Faces of Aesop Pack Carnes	5–33
Fables of Pasiphäe, or On Vaccination and Vaccimulgence Marc Shell	34–44
John Oldham's Satiric Poetry and the Beast Fable Betsy K. Barnes	45–54
Samuel Johnson: Beast Fabulist and Satirist on Mankind Thomas Tierney	55–65
From Apuleius to A· R· Wallace: Evolutionary Theory and Some Literary Animals and Insects David Spooner	66–74
Eating Crow: Rousseau on the Fable Susan Shell	75–86
Horace's and Today's Town and Country Mice Gregory I. Carlson S.J.	87–112
Sacramental Relationships in Kenneth Rexroth's A Bestiary Dennis Leavens	113–125
Moral Imperialism in the Ramayana W. Brian Altano	126–138

Subjects

Literature & Literary Studies

Medieval literature & literary studies

Main BIC Subject

DSB: Literary studies: general

Main BISAC Subject

LIT000000: LITERARY CRITICISM / General