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Bernard Mandeville and the Middlesex Grand Jury

Abstract: ONE OF THE MANY PUZZLES about Bernard Mandeville's Fable of the Bees is why it had to wait until its third edition before attracting attention, and then immediately acquired notoriety. The initial version, his poem The Grumbling Hive, seems to have sunk without trace of criticism, favorable or hostile, when it appeared in 1705. The first expansion, in the form of the Fable, went through two editions in 1714, so presumably attracted readers, but again does not appear to have excited much comment. But in 1723 the third edition was presented by the Grand Jury of Middlesex, and subjected to a barrage of invective from pulpit and press, a chorus of complaint which accompanied its publishing history throughout the rest of the eighteenth century. What sparked off the controversy was the presentment of the Fable by the Grand Jury. If we could establish why the jurors were so incensed by the book as to recommend the prosecution of its publisher to the Court of King's Bench, we would be nearer to understanding why its third edition offended people, while earlier editions were not greeted with a similar reception. Mandeville himself was convinced that the Essay on Charity and Charity Schools, which he added to the Fable in 1723, provoked their wrath. As we shall see, he was partly right. But the actual presentment only alludes to his indictment of charity schools, and then links it to another attack made upon them by John Trenchard in the British Journal. It specifically criticizes the Fable because the Grand Jury held that it was designed "to run down Religion and Virtue as prejudicial to Society, and detrimental to the State; and to recommend Luxury, Avarice, Pride, and all kind of Vices, as being

Prolegómenos al estudio de la fábula en época helenística

Abstract: This paper tries to reconstruct the history of the Hellenistic collections of fables, which undoubtedly existed between that of Demetrius Phalereus (around 300 B.C.) and those that have been preserved until today. A remarkable fact in the history of fable in the third century B.C. is that the prose fables of Demetrius were versified (in choliambs and iamble trimeters). Also some new verse fables were composed. Classic fables were borrowed or modified and new ones were simply invented by the Cynic movement, which is responsible for the metric redactions. But in late Hellenistic times a counter movement appeared that prosified the metric fables or created new ones in prose. Stoicism and simply moralizing tendencies transformed fable so that it was used henceforth in schools as an important teaching instrument.

Using Elemental Literary Forms in the Composition Class.

Abstract: types: fable, fairy tale, parable, proverb, and myth. Bettleheim is concerned principally with the insights fairy tales provided about children's psychological development, but he also makes clear that these stories should be re-examined by all those working in the humanities and social sciences for new pedagogical approaches. Those of us teaching reading and writing will especially take this charge to heart. For if a student is to write about his own experience and that of his society, he must first have acquired a framework within which he can see