Sir Louis Henry Davies
Sir Louis Henry Davies , 1845-1924, Canadian jurist, b. Charlottetown, P.E.I. While a member of the provincial legislature (1872-79), he also served (1876-79) as prime minister of Prince Edward Island. From 1882 to 1901 he sat as a Liberal in the Canadian House of Commons and held a cabinet post from 1896 to 1901. Appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of Canada in 1901, he became chief justice in 1918. He was knighted in 1897.
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Gripping Fables
Newspaper article from: The Malay Mail; 10/8/2003; ; 700+ words
; FABLES: THE LAST CASTLE (VERTIGO) FABLES has always been an example of a smart pairing of modern sensibilities...dark Grimm fairy tales. The formula has proven a success - with Fables being one of the best- selling Vertigo titles. For the uninitiated...
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Aesop's fables on English ceramics.
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 6/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...images from Aesop's fables are those relating...Morisson in 1677, the fable recounts how The...associated with this fable have been popular...widely read Aesop's Fables, with His Life...Samuel Croxall's Fables of Aesop, and Others...primary source for fable decoration on many...
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La Fabrique des Fables: Essai sur la poetique de La Fontaine.
Magazine article from: The Romanic Review; 3/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...mais c'est aux Fables qu'est consacree...est-ce qu'une fable? Examinant l'histoire...esthetique de la fable, mais on ne peut...sur ce point les Fables aux Essais de Montaigne...explications de textes de fables. C'est du reste...de texte d'une fable. Le chapitre de...
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The fable as narrative in the Indian tradition.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Creative Forum; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...greater adaptability of the fable-genre, in being fused...alike. James Thurber's Fables of Our Time and Walt...continuing relevance of the fable-narrative. India...links among different fable-narratives; the socio...original story; the fables as autonomous genre as...
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The Ancient Fable: An Introduction
Magazine article from: Journal of American Folklore; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Holzberg's Ancient Fable: An Introduction...sources for Aesop's fables. The book surveys...This includes fables as exempla in the...literature; the verse fable collections of...between the Aesopic fables and the ancient Indian fable tradition recorded...
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Fables of Modernity: Literature and Culture in the English Eighteenth Century.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Criticism; 6/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...that its cultural fables participated directly...exactly is a "cultural fable"? Though Brown...by exploring the fables of the city sewer...exemplum of cultural fable. The pressures of...wherein all of these fables interlock and illuminate...concert with the fable of commodification...
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Development of the comprehension and appreciation of fables.
Magazine article from: Genetic, Social, and General Psychology Monographs; 2/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...children and adults like fables and how they understand...form. History of the Fable Genre The origination of fables is often credited to...morals to the end of his fables, but that later writers...Definition of the Fable Genre What is a fable...
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Making mention of Aesop: Henryson's fable of the two mice.
Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...fundamental to the way fables work. Were it possible...the moral of the fable would have no bite...The particular fable I shall discuss here...Henryson's Moral Fables, probably written...The genre of animal fable has itself been subjected...Since Aesopic fables are now thought to...
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A Pact with Silence: Art and Thought in the Fables of Jean de La Fontaine.
Magazine article from: The Romanic Review; 3/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...mais c'est aux Fables qu'est consacree...est-ce qu'une fable? Examinant l'histoire...esthetique de la fable, mais on ne peut...sur ce point les Fables aux Essais de Montaigne...explications de textes de fables. C'est du reste...de texte d'une fable. Le chapitre de...
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REVISITING THE IMAGINARY AUDIENCE AND PERSONAL FABLE CONSTRUCTS OF ADOLESCENT EGOCENTRISM: A CONCEPTUAL REVIEW.
Magazine article from: Adolescence; 12/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...the imaginary audience and the personal fable, respectively. These two constructs have...issues, the imaginary audience and personal fable constructs continue to be considered prototypical...the imaginary audience and the personal fable, and the empirical data pertaining to...
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Fairy Tales and Fables
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society
Fairy Tales and Fables Fables provided instructional reading for European children from the Middle...becoming popular only from the later eighteenth century onward. Fables In the western world, brief animal fables with an appended moral...
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fable
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...The characters of a fable are usually animals...The oldest known fables are those in the...The use of the fable in the 20th cent...James Thurber's Fables for Our Time (1940...translation of The Fables of La Fontaine...Blackham, The Fable as Literature (1985...
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Fable for Critics, A
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Fable for Critics, A, verse satire by Lowell , published...Neighbor Emerson's orchards alone?”). The fable in which these comments are set deals with a gathering...similar plan is followed by Amy Lowell in her Critical Fable.
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Fables for Our Time, and Famous Poems Illustrated
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Fables for Our Time, and Famous Poems Illustrated...Twenty‐eight brief, wry, witty fables in the style of a modern Aesop, illustrated...embellishments by Thurber. In 1956 he published Further Fables for Our Time.
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Critical Fable, A
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Critical Fable, A, humorous critical verse on contemporary poets by Amy Lowell , published...and the ludicrous rhymes are patterned after James Russell Lowell's Fable for Critics. An elder poet (presumably J.R. Lowell) and a contemporary...
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