fabular

• “All the charmed, fabular beasts caught as if under a spell.”

  The Huffington Post: Jay Kirk: Museum Of Natural History And Carl Akeley's Jounrey To Build Its African Wing

• “In a bustling and minutely imagined fabular landscape, crammed with allegorical figures and places, Luka moves swiftly between the mythological and the contemporary; one minute he is meeting all manner of gods and goddesses, the other he's subject to the laws of the videogame, keeping a close eye on the number of "lives" he has left and trying to save his progress through various levels.”

  The Guardian: Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie - review

• “Spielberg is presumably attempting to infuse his film with a fairytale, fabular quality – but all he does is provide it with a directorial straitjacket, with the audience instructed through insistent camera angles, nagging music, and strategised lighting exactly what it's supposed to be feeling at any given moment.”

  The Guardian: War Horse – review

• “Betty T, I know there are a few adult books about the truce, and some picture books that cast a fabular glow over the whole thing, but Murphy's book is really good.”

  From Cape Cod to Christmas

• “Invention (the invention of a generation, of this generation) cannot maintain the purity of its fictional or fabular status. 27”

  'At the Far End of this Ongoing Enterprise...'

• “If this means, as he explains, that the genealogical narrative he provides apparently has no referent, his identification of its fictional — indeed fabular — status does not lead him to abandon this narrative.”

  'At the Far End of this Ongoing Enterprise...'

• “In its haunting voice and its inevitable movement, both fabular and precise, it is a nearly perfect work, still as singular and eerie today as when it was published, in 1980.”

  The Minister's Tale

• “The fabular relations of the poets are so careful of decorum, that they never leave a Hercules destitute of necessaries; but those still spring, as out of some fountain, as well for him as for his companions.”

  Essays and Miscellanies

• “But biographical assumptions such as this can occur only if we disregard that The Last Man, in its science, in its slippery time and place, in its complexities of male/female relationships, and its politics, is consciously premised on a fabular realm.”

  Radical Imaginings: Mary Shelley's The Last Man

• “To interested readers of Stephen Crane's work, no impression of it could be further than the fabular repute we have mentioned from the facts of his productive career as a writer.”

  Stephen Crane.

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