Once Again, La Fontaine
Author: Jean de La Fontaine
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780819564580
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Author: Jean de La Fontaine
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780819564580
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew translations of classic French fables.
Author: Jean La Fontaine
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2010-10-01
Total Pages: 507
ISBN-13: 0252091671
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInspired new translations of the work of one of the world's greatest fabulists Told in an elegant style, Jean de la Fontaine's (1621-95) charming animal fables depict sly foxes and scheming cats, vain birds and greedy wolves, all of which subtly express his penetrating insights into French society and the beasts found in all of us. Norman R. Shapiro has been translating La Fontaine's fables for over twenty years, capturing the original work's lively mix of plain and archaic language. This newly complete translation is destined to set the English standard for this work. Awarded the Lewis Galantière Prize by the American Translators Association, 2008.
Author: Andrew Calder
Publisher: Librairie Droz
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9782600004640
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTel 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.
Author: Ellen McClure
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 1843845504
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIdolatry was one of the dominant and most contentious themes of early modern religious polemics. This book argues that many of the best-known literary and philosophical works of the French seventeenth century were deeply engaged and concerned with the theme. In a series of case studies and close readings, it shows that authors used the logic of idolatry to interrogate the fractured and fragile relationship between the divine and the human, with particular attention to the increasingly fraught question of the legitimacy of human agency. Reading d'Urf , Descartes, La Fontaine, S vign , Molire, and Racine through the lens of idolatry reveals heretofore hidden aspects of their work, all while demonstrating the link between the emergent autonomy of literature and philosophy and the confessional conflicts that dominated the period. In so doing, Professor McClure illustrates how religion can become a source of interpretive complexity, and how this dynamism can and should be taken into account in early modern French studies and beyond. ELLEN MCCLURE is Associate Professor of History and French, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Author: Maya Slater
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780485115673
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Randolph Runyon
Publisher: Rookwood Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781886365162
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRunyon demonstrates the intimate connectedness between each fable and the next as well as the sequential unity of each of La Fontaine's masterpieces. (Poetry)
Author: Jean de La Fontaine
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780252066504
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese wonderfully wrought moral tales will as easily charm children with bright and basic truths as they will delight adults drawn to their reflectively subtle, sophisticated facets of wit and wisdom.
Author: Peter Handke
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9780811217767
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A collection of seventeen 'microepics' written by Peter Handke on trips around the world, from the Balkans to the Pyrenees, from Salzburg to the Sea of Hokkaido in Japan."--P. [4] of cover.
Author: John Ralston Saul
Publisher: Penguin Canada
Published: 2010-10-05
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 0143178741
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCanada has no better interpreter than prolific writer and thinker John Ralston Saul. Here he argues that Canada did not begin in 1867; indeed, its foundation was laid by two visionary men, Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine and Robert Baldwin. The two leaders of Lower and Upper Canada, respectively, worked together after the 1841 Union to lead a reformist movement for responsible government run by elected citizens instead of a colonial governor. But it was during the "Great Ministry" of 1848—51 that the two politicians implemented laws that created a more equitable country. They revamped judicial institutions, created a public education system, made bilingualism official, designed a network of public roads, began a public postal system, and reformed municipal governance. Faced with opposition, and even violence, the two men— polar opposites in temperament—united behind a set of principles and programs that formed modern Canada. Writing with verve and deep conviction, Saul restores these two extraordinary Canadians to rightful prominence.
Author: Michael Vincent
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1992-01-01
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9027277338
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe works of Jean de La Fontaine have invited an extraordinary variety of readings in the three centuries since their composition. By engaging selected fables and tales with contemporary notions of intertextuality, reader reception theory, and grammatology, Figures of the Text raises questions about what “reading La Fontaine” meant in the 17th century, and what it means today. The study integrates a theory of reading and a theory of textual production by drawing attention to those aspects of the text that figure writing and reading, for instance: scenes of reading; other modes of writing (emblems, hieroglyphics); inscriptions and epitaphs; proper names; and citation (proverbs, maxims, allusions); the relation of represented orality to textuality, of textuality to corporeality, and of textuality to the visual arts (ekphrasis); and the archaeology of textual figures, such as labyrinths, textiles, and veils.