| Description |
177 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
Originally presented as the author's thesis, University of Illinois. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: page 171. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
La Fontaine and seventeenth-century forerunners -- Aesop as a popular figure and the fable in England -- Theories of the fable: La Motte and Richer -- The fable in Germany during the first half-century -- French ideas at mid-century -- Lessing's Aesopian fables and the anti-Lessing -- Rousseau and the fable in education -- Dodsley and England at mid-century -- Herder and the romantic turn -- Samaniego, Iriarte, and the fable in Spain. |
| Subject |
Fables -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Fables. |
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Didactic literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Didactic literature. |
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Criticism -- History -- 18th century.
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Criticism. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| ISBN |
0231038585 |
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9780231038584 |
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