Preaching Voices behind the Beast Fables

Paper Code: 
ENG 144 (c) - Option 17

Unit I

"Animal Presences: Tussles with Anthropomorphism" by Gillian Beer

Unit II

“The Animal Voice Behind the Animal Fable” by NaamaHarel

Unit III

“Translation History” by Alexander Kist

Unit IV

“Rikki-Tikki-Tavi”, “Toomai of the Elephants” and “Darzee’s Chant” from The Jungle Book

Unit V

Panchatantra(pp 19 -57)

Source Books: 

Source Books:

Harel, Naama. “The Animal Voice Behind the Animal Fable”. Journal for Critical Animal Studies, vol.7, no. 2, 2009, pp. 9-21. www.criticalanimalstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Naama-Harel-pg....

Beer, Gillian. "Animal Presences: Tussles with Anthropomorphism". Comparative Critical Studies, vol.2, no. 3, 2005, pp. 311-23. Edinburgh University PressJournals.www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/ccs.2005.2.3.311

Kist, Alexander. “Translation History”.Letting in The Jungle: An Analysis of the Translation History of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Books and its Implications concerning Opinions on the Child and Society throughout Modern History.pp. 10-15. Utrecht University Repository, 

Kipling, Rudyard. The Jungle Book.  6 October 2016. Project Gutenberg E Book.www.gutenberg.org/files/236/236-h/236-h.htm

Ryder, Arthur W., translator. The Panchatantra.By Vishnu Sharma.University of Chicago Press, 1925. pp 19 – 57. www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00litlinks/panchatantra_ryder/inde...

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Recommended Reading:

Nair, Anita. Magical Indian Myths.OUP, 2007.

Fletcher, Angus. Allegory: The Theory of a Symbolic Mode. Cornell University Press, 1993.

Dua, Shyam. Jataka Tales. Tiny Tot Publications, 2015.

Nair, Narendra. “The Relevance of the 'Panchatantra' ”.E Times.4 Dec. 2008,https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/The-relevance-of-the-Panchatantra/ar...

D, Norton & Norton S.Through the eyes of the Child: An Introduction to Children’s Literatur. Pretince Hall, 2010.

Sethi, Sweekrati. Indian and Arabic Classical Folktales: A Comparative Study of the 

Dictates of Conscience.Shodhganga.http://shodh.inflibnet.ac.in:8080/jspui/ bitstream/123456789/4479/1/synopsis.pdf

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