Article: Text as image in Kipling's Just So Stories.(Rudyard Kipling)(Report)

"How the First Letter was Written" and "How the Alphabet was Made" seem like anomalies in Kipling's Just So Stories. The quintessential Just So Story, it is easy to think, concerns the acquisition of a distinctive physical trait by some distinctive animal. But two-thirds of the way into the collection, between the stories in which animals with attitude are physically transformed by their circumstances and the three final stories in which animals with attitude transform the world around them, we find two stories about the invention of literacy. These two stories, far from being anomalous, are in fact the heart of the collection, as they seem also to have been closest to ...

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