Lyrical liars, animal desires and figurative kinship
Robert Henryson's defence of poetry in the prologue to The Morall Fabillis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21334775 |
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| Authors | David Moses (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 72 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 27-48 |
| Publication date | 2021-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Innes Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-157X • E-ISSN: 1745-5219 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/inr.2021.0280 |
| OpenAlex | W3156966425 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
This article cites Robert Henryson's Fables in order to contextualise the history of the medieval notion that the world of imaginary, poetic fiction, needs justification; and examines the theological sources which served as the foundation of that debate and provided the validation for the use of fable animals as moral exemplars
Art · Character (mathematics) · CITES · Fable · Innocence · Kinship · Linguistics · Literal and figurative language · Literature · Order (exchange) · Poetry · Prologue · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · The Imaginary · Anthropology · History · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy · Psychology · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
| Highly cited | No |
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