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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The Complete Fables of Jean de La Fontaine
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.
The Fables of La Fontaine
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.
The Logic of Idolatry in Seventeenth-century French Literature
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.
The Craft of LaFontaine
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.
In La Fontaine's Labyrinth
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)
Fifty More Fables of La Fontaine
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.
Emblematics and Seventeenth-century French Literature
Author: Laurence Grove
Publisher: Rookwood Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9781886365193
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExtraordinary Canadians: Louis Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert
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.
Flushed Out!
Author: E. Michael Abel
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2012-10
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 1479730246
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFlushed Out! is a cleverly written tale of international crime and intrigue that illustrates the notorious world of an illegal drug syndicate and its distribution operations. It will take you from Colombia, South America to the island of Curaçao to Tampa, Florida - and further to New York to follow the authorities as they hunt down the felons and attempt to stop the illicit deals. In this stupefying account of the illegal drug trade, Abel provides a descriptive and compelling insight into the hideous network of drug distribution. He introduces the readers to the Manhatan, N.Y., DEA Special Agent in Charge, Jack Finch, who devises an operation to get the Tampa, Florida-based drug transporter, Carlo Estevez, up to New York and to shut down his distribution network plaguing the Northeast Corridor of the United States: to flush him out. Finch's plan is simple in theory but complex in its execution—to intercept a shipment of drugs, make it look like a rip-off and setting up his old college classmate, Michael Boland, as a pigeon, and the man who planned it all. Timing is everything on this mission; everything needs to be in place.
