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Refiguring La Fontaine : tercentenary essays / edited by Anne L. Birberick.
LIBRA PQ1812 .R39 1996
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- EMF monographs
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621-1695--Criticism and interpretation.
- La Fontaine, Jean de.
- La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621-1695.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 236 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville [Va.] : Rookwood Press, [1996]
- Summary:
- Reprint of an internationally praised collection of essays by a team of cutting-edge La Fontaine scholars.
- Contents:
- La Modernite de La Fontaine / Marie-Odile Sweetser 1
- La Fontaine's Frame(d)works / Michael Vincent 22
- "Le Retour des Cigales": Images du poete dans les premieres fables de La Fontaine / Martine Debaisieux 47
- II. Writing, Reading, and Perspective in the Fables
- La Fontaine's Dialogic World: A Bakhtinian Approach to Two Fables / Richard Danner 71
- Scientific Verses: Subversion of Cartesian Theory and Practice in the "Discours a Madame de La Sabliere" / Russell Ganim 101
- The Optics of Relativism in the Fables of La Fontaine / Catherine Grise 126
- III. Narrative Loss and Figuration in Psyche and the Contes
- "La Nuit vient sur un char conduit par le silence": Ellipse and Ellipsis in Les Amours de Psyche et de Cupidon / Twyla A. Meding 157
- From World to Text: The Figure of the Nun in La Fontaine's Contes / Anne L. Birberick 181
- IV. Ideology and Translation
- Refabulations / David Lee Rubin 203.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1886365008
- OCLC:
- 32891436
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