A History Of Augustan Fable

This text explores the tradition of fable across a wide variety of written and illustrative media, from its origins in classical antiquity to beyond the end of ... » 

This text explores the tradition of fable across a wide variety of written and illustrative media, from its origins in classical antiquity to beyond the end of the 18th century. It offers both a history and a poetics of the genre, seeking to show the stable and transhistorical qualities of fable. «