Bestia

1989 Bestia: Yearbook of the Beast Fable Society, Volume One, May, 1989. Editor Benjamin Bennani. Paperbound. Printed in USA. Kirksville, MO: Northeast Missouri State University. $10 from Beast Fable Society, May, '91.

Items included in this inaugural issue were read at the Society's First International Congress in Agadir, Morocco, in August of 1988. Items in this yearbook are: "Marc Shell, Beauty and the Beast"; Robert Lima, "Borges and the Beast: Numerology in The Book of Imaginary Beings"; Margaret Parker, "The Libro de Buen Amor, El Libro de Calila e Digna and the Picaresque Connection"; Charles Cantalupo, "Anima/1"; Josephine Bloomfield, "Rediscovering Henryson: An Exploration of Obstacles in Canon Formation"; Marijane Osborn, "'The Fox and the Wolf': A Verse Translation of Robert Henryson's Fable"; Henry Kratz, "Three High Points of the Beast Fable in Germany: Der Stricker, Luther, Lessing"; Servanne Woodward, "The Nature of the Beast in Jack London's Fiction"; Teo Savory, "Free-Form Pentacles: A Fable"; Joyce Hope Scott, "Excising the Other: Liberation Ethics and the Politics of Deference--A Perspective on the Afro-American Animal Tale"; W. Brian Altano, "The Beast Fable As Evasive Anti-Fascist Commentary: The First Book of Fables of Carlo Emilio Gadda"; Ronald Cere, "The Theme of Social Protest in the Literary Fables of Thomas de Iriarte"; and Yve Hannah Jourdain, "Two Fables: I. And the Eye Wept Clouds, and II. Shepherds Were No Leopards."

1990 Bestia: Yearbook of the Beast Fable Society, Volume Two, May, 1990. Editor Benjamin Bennani. Paperbound. Printed in USA. Kirksville, MO: Northeast Missouri State University. $10 from Beast Fable Society, May, '91.

Items included in this issue were read at the Society's Second International Congress in Copenhagen, Denmark, in August of 1989. Items in this yearbook are: Jan M. Ziolkowski, "The Form and Spirit of Beast Fable"; Steven H. Lonsdale, "Approaches to the Beast Fable in the Liberal Arts Curriculum"; Jan M. Zioikowski, "Teaching Animals"; Nicholas Ruddick, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at Two Black Birds: A Critical Fiction Based on 'The Twa Corbies'"; Joyce Hope Scott, "Who 'Goophered' Whom: The Afro-American Fabulist and His Tale in Charles Chestnutt's The Conjure Woman"; Kirsten H. Powell, "La Fontaine's 'The Frogs Who Asked for a King': Reptiles and Revolutions in French Fable Illustration and Caricature'"; Pierre Hunt, "Ivan Krylov and the Aesopian Style of Narrative"; Kari Lokke, "'A Whirlpool of Change': Isak Dinesen's 'The Monkey' As a Beast Fable"; Margaret G. Wolitarsky, "The Doffing of Skins"; Laraine Fergenson, "George Orwell's Animal Farm: A Twentieth-Century Beast Fable"; and Sue Mattheson, "Smokey the Cowhorse: The Beast Fable Goes West."

1991 Bestia: Yearbook of the Beast Fable Society, Volume Three, May, 1991. Editor Benjamin Bennani. Paperbound. Printed in USA. Kirksville, MO: Northeast Missouri State University. $10 from Beast Fable Society, May, '91.

Items included in this issue were read at the Society's Third International Congress in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, in April, 1990. Items in this yearbook are: Kenneth Varty, "Animal Fable and Fabulous Animal: The Evolution of the Species With Specific Reference to the Foxy Kind"; Maureen Fries, "Shape-shifting Women in the Old Irish Sagas"; J.P. Singh, "Beast Fables in Sanskrit"; Servanne Woodward, "Galiani's Beast Fable in Diderot's Letters to Sophie Volland"; Kenneth Watson, "The Beast of Syntax: Keats's 'Lamia' and Narrative Time"; Cecilia Ann Sims, "The Rebirth of Indian and Chinese Mythology in Gerald Vizenor's Griever: An American Monkey King in China"; Judson Jerome, "Myth, Fable, and Art in Yeats's 'Leda and the Swan'"; Kenneth Varty, "Renart Through the Looking Glass: The Passage of the Fox from One Fictitious World to Another in the Roman de Renart"; Dennis Leavens, "Finding One to Worship, Finding One to Betray: The Language of Fable in Thurber, Orwell, and Pynchon"; Frederick B. Jonassen, "The Stag Hunt in The Merry Wives of Windsor"; Barbara Cantalupo, "Secondary Beasts in Moby-Dick"; Jim Severns, "Bernard Shaw As Beast Fabulist"; Roger L. Cole, "Beast Allegory in the Late Medieval Sermon in Strasbourg: The Example of John Geiler's von den vier Lewengeschrei (1507)."

1992 Bestia: Yearbook of the Beast Fable Society, Volume Four, May, 1992. Editor Benjamin Bennani. Paperbound. Printed in USA. Kirksville, MO: Northeast Missouri State University. $10 from Beast Fable Society, May, '92.

Items included in this issue were read at the Society's Fourth International Congress in Margarita Island and Caracas, Venezuela, in May and June, 1991. Items in this yearbook are: Pack Carnes, "The Fable and the Anti-Fable: The Modern Faces of Aesop"; Marc Shell, "Pasiphäe, or On Vaccination and Vaccimulgence"; Beth Barnes, "John Oldham's Satiric Poetry and the Beast Fable"; Thomas Tierney, "Samuel Johnson: Beast Fabulist and Satirist on Mankind"; David Spooner, "From Apuleius to A.R. Wallace: Evolutionary Theory and Some Literary Animals and Insects"; Susan Shell, "Eating Crow: Rousseau on the Fable"; Rev. Gregory I. Carlson, S.J., "Horace's and Today's Town and Country Mice"; Dennis Leavens, "Sacramental Relationships in Kenneth Rexroth's A Bestiary"; and Brian Altano, "Moral Imperialism in the Ramayana."

1993 Bestia: Yearbook of the Beast Fable Society, Volume Five, May, 1993. Editor Benjamin Bennani. Paperbound. Printed in USA. Kirksville, MO: Northeast Missouri State University. $10 from Beast Fable Society, Sept., '93.

Items included in this issue were read at the Society's Fifth International Congress in Glasgow, Scotland in July, 1992. Items in this yearbook are: Rev. Gregory I. Carlson, S.J., "Fables Invite Perception"; J.G.M. van Dijk, "Fables in Ancient Historiography"; Laura Wilhelm, "Form in Action: Functions of the Fable in Russian Literary Culture"; Isao S. Uemichi, "Japanese Folktales of Fish"; Linda Schlafer, "The Beast Fable Comes to America…Or Does It?"; Charles Cantalupo, "The Beast in Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan"; Arnold Preussner, "The Actaeon Myth in Ovid, Wyatt, and Sidney"; David Spooner, "Of Cells and Mutation"; and Nalini Natarajan, "Man into Beast: Representations of Metamorphosis."

2002 Bestia: Yearbook of the Beast Fable Society, Volume Eight, 2002. Editor Benjamin Bennani. Paperbound. Printed in USA. Kirksville, MO: Truman State University. $10 from Beast Fable Society, Nov., '02.

Items included in this issue were read at the Society's Eighth International Congress in Marrakech, Morocco, in July, 2001. Items in this yearbook are: Gregory I. Carlson, "A Ridiculous Bet?"; Servanne Woodward, "Adami's Fish: A Fish Tale by Derrida"; Arnold W. Preussner, "'A Wilderness of Tigers:' Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus as Beast(ly) Fable"; E. Joe Johnson, Jr., "Who Loved the Better? La Fontaine's 'Les deux Amis'"; Ashton Nichols, "The Last Sturgeon: A Postmodern Fable"; Bob Mielke, "Daniel Quinn's Ishmael: Can a Beast Fable Save the World?"; Dennis Leavens, "A Reconsideration of John Gay's Fables I"; Peter Saiz, "Colonialism and the Ponca Rabbit Stories"; Patricia Gately, "The Jungle of Human Nature: Fable and Evolution in Leonard Woolf's The Village in the Jungle"; Andrew Martino, "Tripping the Light Fantastic: The Fabulist Calvino"; and Nandita Batra, "Jungle People and Beast Folk: Darwinian and Imperial Discourse in Two Fables of the Fin-de-Siècle."

 

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