Medium Aevum, September 22nd, 1994
This is a short study of the themes and structure of Henryson's Fables, notionally focused on the guiding role of the Narrator, but at its best when it looks beyond that concern. Greentree strongly affirms as authorial the order of the Fables in the late (1571) Bassandyne print. This licenses her presentation of the Narrator as a reader and expositor whose view of his sources decisively shifts in the course of their narration: from optimism to dejection about human potential on earth, from enthusiastic engagement with the fabular world to a resigned parting from it. She thus argues that the Pr...
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