Pulse en una miniatura para ir a Google Books.
Cargando... Aesop: Five Centuries of Illustrated Fablespor Aesop
Ninguno Cargando...
Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Excerpt from Aesop: Five Centuries of Illustrated FablesThe fables of Aesop are the only text that has been illustrated so often, so diversely, and so continuously that the history of the printed illustrated book can be shown by them alone. Illustrated Bibles outnumber the fables, but the sacred text imposes a more hieratic and less varied approach. Ovid's Metamorphoses accounts for a great number of illustrated books, but this classical author has suffered many periods of neglect. The fables' combina tion of freedom of approach and constant appeal has kept them steadily popular as a subject for book illustration from the fifteenth century to the present.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
Debates activosNingunoCubiertas populares
Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)398.21Social sciences Customs, Etiquette, Folklore Folklore Folk literature Tales and lore of paranatural beings of human and semihuman formClasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
¿Eres tú?Conviértete en un Autor de LibraryThing. |
Aesop: Five Centuries of Illustrated Fables highlights the fact that these short tales have been popular in every age, and have been presented in many guises. It also points to the reality that despite the ubiquity of his fables, there is no such person as "Aesop the author," as "his" stories come to us through the work of others. Finally, as McKendry rightly notes in his introduction, the fables are fixed in neither time nor place, and therefore lend themselves to endless retelling and reinterpretation.
I enjoyed this collection, even when I didn't particularly relish the archaic English of some of the selections, and finished it with a renewed determination to read the poetry of Babrius and Phaedrus - two classical authors whose works constitute some of the earliest extant adaptations of that master (and semi-apocryphal) fabulist known as Aesop. ( )