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- Title
The Fable as a Global Genre: Marie de France, Ulrich Bonerius, Don Juan Manuel, and Kalila and Dimna.
- Authors
Classen, Albrecht
- Abstract
As much as recent scholarship has tried to develop a new approach toward world or global literature, the essential problem continues that in those efforts simply writers and poets from the various countries and continents are placed side by side without any consideration of inter- and transdisciplinarity, if not shared meaning and critical exchange. Drawing from the tradition of medieval fable literature, however, we face a truly productive approach in recognizing what global literature could really entail since the various writers across the continents addressed, broadly speaking, the same issues and fundamentally agreed on the critical values in all of human life. Studying fables within the framework of world literature opens intriguing perspectives because differences in the use of language, the cultural framework, the religious background, and the literary sources employed by the various writers basically fall away. This allows us to recognize a universal discourse on the essential concerns in all of human life, whether we look at Persian, French, German, or Spanish fables. Vices and virtues have been with people throughout time across the world, so it is little wonder that fable authors can be identified as some of the most important contributors to global literature.
- Subjects
LITERARY sources; LITERATURE; FABLES; MEDIEVAL literature; AUTHORS; SCHOLARSHIPS
- Publication
Quidditas, 2021, Vol 42, p152
- ISSN
1544-9971
- Publication type
Article