Irish Mythical Beasts
Luke McQueeny; Desert Creature
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From Aesop to Reynard: Beast Literature in Medieval Britain $82.17 What do stories about animals have to tell us about human beings? This book analyzes the shrewd perceptions about human life – and especially human language – that emerge from narratives in which the main figures are ‘talking animals’. Its guiding question is not ‘what’ but ‘how’ animals mean. Using this question to draw a clear distinction between beast fable and beast epic, it goes on to examine… |
