fabular
- adjective
- /ˈfæbjələr/
- Literature
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fabular
- Her painting captured the fabular essence of the forest, turning it into a whimsical and enchanting place.
- fabular and parabolic
Examples
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It is, as we have suggested, the dominant interest of East Asian thought being moral pragmatics that made the fabular or parabolic mode of discourse an easy resort in expository writing.
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But his Hollywoods do not so much encourage contemplation of the fabular quality of the place or prompt reflections on Tinseltown as they foreground the material stuff of their letters.
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Narratives of a fabular nature in the East Asian tradition overlap with other kinds of writing.
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More straightforward fabular or parabolic examples of the Aesopian kind can be found in Sun Tzu and Han Fei-tzu.
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The important point is that they all involve pragmatic concern; all fabular and parabolic narration takes on new significance when it is related to the assumption the reader is induced to make about the unity of the normative and the actual in human performance in the story.
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In Johnson's fabular story, Cooter and Loftis are punished for stealing from a tortured hoarder by uncannily replicating her paranoia and depravity.
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Finally, room needs to be made for the "hyperstitional" strand in the inhumanist movement that explores its hypotheses in fabular form, as a radicalized development of Deleuze and Guattari's "becoming-animal."
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Many children enjoy tales that have a fabular nature, filled with talking animals and moral lessons.
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The fabular stories of ancient Greece often feature gods and mythical creatures interacting with humans.
Synonyms
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From old myths and stories about creatures and events that are not real
Giving ordinary things the feeling of old stories or legends
Having the feel of old stories about gods and heroes
How Fanciful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Fabular comes from the Latin fabula meaning 'story' or 'tale', and you can see the same root in English words like fable and fabulous. So something described as fabular feels like a storybook, full of imagination and myth.