What Do Stories About Animals Have To Tell Us About Human Beings? This Book Analyzes The Shrewd Perceptions About Human Life - And Especially Human Language - That Emerge From Narratives In Which The Main Figures Are 'talking Animals'. Introduction -- How Animals Mean -- Marie De France: The Courtly Fable -- Nigel Of Longchamp's Speculum Stultorum -- The Owl And The Nightingale -- Chaucerian Birds -- Reynard In England -- Henryson: The Epicized Fable -- Conclusion. Bibliographic Level Mode Of Issuance: Monograph Includes Bibliographical References And Index. English