Papers by Philippa Bright
Beginning University, 2020
In the Prologue which accompanies his collection of thirteen fables Henryson explains that fables... more In the Prologue which accompanies his collection of thirteen fables Henryson explains that fables teach "be figure of ane vther thing" (1. 7), 1 and that Aesop, the author whose work he professes to be translating, wrote "be figure" (1. 59) in order to avoid the scorn of those of both high and low rank in society. While such statements clearly imply that Henryson's own fables will employ a figurative technique, there has been considerable disagreement about the nature of this technique and about the kind of relationship that exists between the literal and figurative levels of meaning in his fables. Whereas some critics have stressed the purely arbitrary connection between tale and moral,2 others have insisted on the essential harmony of the two elements. 3 Others again, while emphasizing lAll references to Henryson's fables are to The Poems of Robert Henryson, ed. Denton Fox (Oxford, 1981).
Studies in Scottish literature, 1990
In the Prologue which accompanies his collection of thirteen fables Henryson explains that fables... more In the Prologue which accompanies his collection of thirteen fables Henryson explains that fables teach "be figure of ane vther thing" (1. 7), 1 and that Aesop, the author whose work he professes to be translating, wrote "be figure" (1. 59) in order to avoid the scorn of those of both high and low rank in society. While such statements clearly imply that Henryson's own fables will employ a figurative technique, there has been considerable disagreement about the nature of this technique and about the kind of relationship that exists between the literal and figurative levels of meaning in his fables. Whereas some critics have stressed the purely arbitrary connection between tale and moral,2 others have insisted on the essential harmony of the two elements. 3 Others again, while emphasizing lAll references to Henryson's fables are to The Poems of Robert Henryson, ed. Denton Fox (Oxford, 1981).
Studies in Scottish Literature, 1990
In the Prologue which accompanies his collection of thirteen fables Henryson explains that fables... more In the Prologue which accompanies his collection of thirteen fables Henryson explains that fables teach "be figure of ane vther thing" (1. 7), 1 and that Aesop, the author whose work he professes to be translating, wrote "be figure" (1. 59) in order to avoid the scorn of those of both high and low rank in society. While such statements clearly imply that Henryson's own fables will employ a figurative technique, there has been considerable disagreement about the nature of this technique and about the kind of relationship that exists between the literal and figurative levels of meaning in his fables. Whereas some critics have stressed the purely arbitrary connection between tale and moral,2 others have insisted on the essential harmony of the two elements. 3 Others again, while emphasizing lAll references to Henryson's fables are to The Poems of Robert Henryson, ed. Denton Fox (Oxford, 1981).
Didactic Literature in the Medieval and Early-Modern Periods, 2008
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