The Fables of La Fontaine
The Fables of La Fontaine

Author: Andrew Calder

Publisher: Librairie Droz

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 9782600004640

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Tel Socrate, La Fontaine a invité ses lecteurs à participer à son observation de l'humanité et à porter un regard détaché et lucide sur celle-ci.

La Fontaine's Complete Tales in Verse
La Fontaine's Complete Tales in Verse

Author: Jean de La Fontaine

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2009-03-23

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0786452781

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Though they were first written over 300 years ago, this is the first complete English translation of Jean de La Fontaine's comedic classic Contes et nouvelles en vers. Both sexually charged and wickedly funny, La Fontaine's Tales will surprise readers who know him only from his work on fables for children. Though the writing is more suggestive than vulgar, it still has the power to shock readers unprepared for the darkness that inhabits these poems. Included are nearly seventy illustrations dating from the 18th and 19th centuries, many of them rare, as well as extensive commentary by the editor.

The Craft of LaFontaine
The Craft of LaFontaine

Author: Maya Slater

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9780485115673

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This study provides a detailed account of the "Fables", including humour, the representation of animals, the literary qualities and the "moraliste" core. Maya Slater brings to light veiled satirical attacks, allusion to forgotten works and literature, and traces the obscure currents of thought, all this in the service of explicating the "fable" element.

Refiguring La Fontaine
Refiguring La Fontaine

Author: Anne Lynn Birberick

Publisher: Rookwood Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9781886365001

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Reprint of an internationally praised collection of essays by a team of cutting-edge La Fontaine scholars.