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The fables of pity: Rousseau, Mandeville and the animal-fable [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Copyright @ 2012 Edinburgh University PressPrompted by Derrida’s work on the animal-fable in eighteenth-century debates about political power, this article examines the role played by the fiction of the animal in thinking of pity as either a natural ...
Alkon Paul Kent   +38 more
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Bees on paper

open access: yesErasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 2016
The British press played a significant role by influencing public debates following the publication of Mandeville’s The fable of the bees. Between 1714 and 1732, British newspapers published over three hundred reports on the Fable that circulated in the
Matteo Revolti
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The imaginary audience and the personal fable in relation to the separation-individuation process during adolescence

open access: yesΨυχολογία: το Περιοδικό της Ελληνικής Ψυχολογικής Εταιρείας, 2020
Lapsley’s (1993) “New Look” model for the interpretation of adolescent egocentrism, as an alternative to the classic cognitive one formulated by Elkind (1967), was tested in this study.
Evangelia P. Galanaki   +1 more
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Narrative Species in Child Journals Turkish Published in Kosova and North Macedonian: Story, Fable, Legend and Epic / Kosova ve Kuzey Makedonya’da Türkçe Yayımlanan Çocuk Dergilerinde Anlatı Türleri: Hikâye, Masal, Efsane, Destan [PDF]

open access: yesFolklor/Edebiyat, 2022
The Balkans are in an extremely important geography today as they were yesterday. The Balkans, whose star started to shine again with the disintegration of Yugoslavia, are also closely related to our country due to the Turkish presence in it. Although
Salih Okumuş
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Murdoch and Margaret : Learning a Moral Life

open access: yesFilm-Philosophy, 2017
Reading the moral philosophy of Iris Murdoch alongside film enables us to see Murdoch's notions of practical moral good in action. For Murdoch, moral philosophy can be seen as “a more systematic and reflective extension of what ordinary moral agents are ...
Lucy Bolton
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Martin Luther and Aesop: Fables as tales of morality for today?

open access: yesIn die Skriflig, 2023
Ancient Aesopian fables continued to capture the imagination, reaching even into Lutheran Wittenberg. Luther, concerned to address morality within the church and community, sanctioned the use of fables with some caution.
Raymond Potgieter
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Schoolbooks [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
According to UNESCO estimates, there are approximately one billion people in the world who can neither read nor write. One sixth of the world population has never seen a schoolbook.
Baldzuhn, Michael
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Den obarocka fabeln – eller den barocka?

open access: yesLychnos, 2021
As a contribution to the discussion on the relevance of the baroque concept in Swedish literary history, the article conducts a case study by testing the concept on the history of a specific genre: the Aesopic fable.
Erik Zillén
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A Survey on Allegory and its Types in Maghalat-e Shams [PDF]

open access: yesMatn/Pizhūhī-i Adabī, 2017
Allegory is a literary device which makes language more artistic and effective. Besides its aesthetic aspects, allegory has some other important functions.
Leila Aghayani Chavoshi
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‘But Who Will Bell the Cat?’: Deschamps, Brinton, Langland, and the Hundred Years’ War [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This essay investigates the mutual use of the ‘belling the cat’ fable in Langland’s Prologue to Piers Plowman, in Thomas Brinton’s sermon from 1376, and in a cluster of poems about the Hundred Years War by Langland’s French contemporary, Eustache ...
Strakhov, Elizaveta
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