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  A Brief History of Fables: From Aesop to Flash Fiction (Brief Histories (Paperback)) (Paperback) By (author) Lee Rourke

  

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  Short Description for A Brief History of FablesIn this groundbreaking work, Lee Rourke traces the long history of a form currently enjoying a resurgence online and in the works of some of the most talented young authors in print.
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  • Publisher: Hesperus Press Ltd
  • Published: 30 September 2011
  • Format: Paperback 112 pages
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  • Categories: Literary Studies: General | Literary Reference Works | Folklore, Myths & Legends | Social & Cultural History
  • ISBN 13: 9781843919711 ISBN 10: 1843919710
  • Sales rank: 281,878

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• 'A poem should not mean,/ But be,' or so the twentieth century literati would have had us believe. Yet from the earliest of classical narratives to modern-day e-zines, literary works have been turned to political, didactic and symbolic ends. In this groundbreaking work, Lee Rourke traces the long history of a form currently enjoying a resurgence online and in the works of some of the most talented young authors in print. As we begin to emerge from modernism and its aftermath, fables - the briefest of narratives given the most expansive of significations - have gained in popularity. Author and literary critic Rourke here considers the permutations of the form, from Aesop's tortoise and hare, via Plato's socio-political works and the later ribald medieval tales, to Kafka's anthropomorphism and present-day authors including Blake Butler, Joseph Young, Shane Jones and Jonathan Lethem. A Brief History of Fables offers a bold take on the new face of literature.