J Adin Mann
Biographic Data
| ID | 5657007 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Adin Mann |
| GIVEN NAMES | J Adin |
| FAMILY NAME | Mann |
| SIGNATURE | MANN J A |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8687-5611 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Chapter 1. The Satiric Fiction of the Ysengrimus
Life in Words
Chapter One. Troilus’s Swoon
From Aesop to Reynard
What do stories about animals have to tell us about human beings? This book analyses 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. Drawing a clear distinction between beast fable and beast epic, it examines the complex variations of these forms that are to be found in the literature of med…
How Animals Mean
This chapter provides a theoretical basis for the discussion of individual works in subsequent chapters. Taking examples from the Latin prose rendition of Phaedran fables known as the Romulus vulgaris, it analyses ‘how animals mean’ in beast fable, emphasizing the deliberate brevity and sparseness of fable narrative, and connecting these features with the mistrust of words that fable characteristically teaches. In contrast, in beast epic (represe…
The Power of the Alphabet
The Cambridge Chaucer Companion
Note on the text 1. The social and literary scene in England Paul Strohm 2. Chaucer's continental inheritance: the early poems and Troilus and Criseyde David Wallace 3. Old books brought to life in dreams: the Book of the Duchess, the House of Fame, the Parliament of Fowls Pietro Boitani 4. Telling the story in Troilus and Criseyde Mark Lambert 5. Chance and destiny in Troilus and Criseyde and the Knight's Tale Jill Mann 6. The Canterbury Tales I…
Proverbial Wisdom in the Ysengrimus
FROM antiquity to the present day, proverbs have formed an important part of oral culture. So deeply are they embedded in our habits of thought and speech that we take them largely for granted, focusing on their existence only, say, when we wish to find in our own linguistic usages something comparable to the oral formulaic tradition. Tied to no particular class or social group, proverbs embody a popular wisdom, based on the assumption of a commo…
Romantic Critic
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Romantic Critic
Proverbial Wisdom in the Ysengrimus
FROM antiquity to the present day, proverbs have formed an important part of oral culture. So deeply are they embedded in our habits of thought and speech that we take them largely for granted, focusing on their existence only, say, when we wish to find in our own linguistic usages something comparable to the oral formulaic tradition. Tied to no particular class or social group, proverbs embody a popular wisdom, based on the assumption of a commo…
The Cambridge Chaucer Companion
Note on the text 1. The social and literary scene in England Paul Strohm 2. Chaucer's continental inheritance: the early poems and Troilus and Criseyde David Wallace 3. Old books brought to life in dreams: the Book of the Duchess, the House of Fame, the Parliament of Fowls Pietro Boitani 4. Telling the story in Troilus and Criseyde Mark Lambert 5. Chance and destiny in Troilus and Criseyde and the Knight's Tale Jill Mann 6. The Canterbury Tales I…
The Power of the Alphabet
From Aesop to Reynard
What do stories about animals have to tell us about human beings? This book analyses 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. Drawing a clear distinction between beast fable and beast epic, it examines the complex variations of these forms that are to be found in the literature of med…
How Animals Mean
This chapter provides a theoretical basis for the discussion of individual works in subsequent chapters. Taking examples from the Latin prose rendition of Phaedran fables known as the Romulus vulgaris, it analyses ‘how animals mean’ in beast fable, emphasizing the deliberate brevity and sparseness of fable narrative, and connecting these features with the mistrust of words that fable characteristically teaches. In contrast, in beast epic (represe…
Chapter One. Troilus’s Swoon
Life in Words
Chapter 1. The Satiric Fiction of the Ysengrimus
Art (5 works) · History (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Literature (4 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (3 works) · Medieval Literature and History (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · EPIC (2 works) · Fable (2 works)