Kirby Congdon (essay date 1966)
SOURCE: Kirby Congdon, "Aesop Revisited," in Américas, Vol. 18, No. 10, October, 1966, pp. 1-2.
[In the following essay, Congdon suggests that fables, using animals as abstract qualities, show individuals that they cannot control God but they can control themselves.]
Since there was probably never, at least in later times, any standard text of the fables, it was inevitable that both the range and their style of composition should change in accordance with the literary fashions of the day and the fancy...
Source: Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, ©1998 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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