Bestia

Yearbook of the Beast Fable Society

Volume 5 (1993)

Editor

Benjamin Bennani | Northeast Missouri State University

Paperback – Available

ISBN 9789027234025 (Eur) | EUR 68.00

ISBN 9781556194962 (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.

[Bestia, 5] 1993. 122 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/bestia.5

Table of Contents

Fables Invite Perception Gregory I. Carlson S.J.	7–25
Fables in Ancient Historiography F.G.M. van Dijk	27–41
Form in Action: Functions of the Fable in Russian Literary Culture Laura Wilhelm	43–62
Japanese Folktales of Fish Isao S. Uemichi	63–71
The Fable Comes to America... Or Does it? Linda Schlafer	73–83
The Beast in Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan Charles Cantalupo	85–94
The Actæon Myth in Ovid, Petrarch, Wyatt, and Sidney Arnold Preussner	95–108
Of Cells and Mutation David Spooner	109–116
Man into Beast: Representations of Metamorphosis Nalini Natarajan	117–122

Subjects

Literature & Literary Studies

Medieval literature & literary studies

Main BIC Subject

DSB: Literary studies: general

Main BISAC Subject

LIT000000: LITERARY CRITICISM / General