... Tucuman, Argentina La Fontaine: 73e Man and His Work. By MONICASUTHERLAND. London : Jona- than Cape, 1953. Pp. 192. 12s. 6d. Mrs. Sutherland, whose maiden name was La Fontaine, first became interested in the French fabulist as a possible ancestor. But the only kinship established...

...Ariadna Foureman Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 1 La Fontaine, Œuvres , ed. Henri Régnier (Paris, 1883), Vols. II and III. “MERITE” AND MORALITY IN BOOKS IX TO XI1 OF LA FONTAINE’S FABLES’ By ARIADNAFOUREMAN...

.... OCTAVIOCORVAL~N Tucuman, Argentina La Fontaine: 73e Man and His Work. By MONICASUTHERLAND. London : Jona- than Cape, 1953. Pp. 192. 12s. 6d. Mrs. Sutherland, whose maiden name was La Fontaine, first became interested in the French fabulist as a possible ancestor. But the only...

...Frank W. Jones Waldo F. McNeir. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, Louisiana State University Studies, Humanities Series, No. 11, 1962. Pp. viii + 311. $3.00. Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 206 La Fontaine’s ‘Fables’ (Books IX-XII) prived...

.... 20854. Merino-Morais, Jane. Dqfkrence et rkpttition duns les “Contes” de La Fontaine. Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, University of Florida Monographs, Humanities, 52, 1983. 142 pp. $12.00, paper. Muratore, Mary Jo. The Evolution of the Cornelian Heroine. Madrid: Jose Porrua...

... would necessarily %, essentially, a paraphrase of Fontaine’s excellent first hand account. . . . (Dodson to the writer, July !4, 1949; on Fontaine, see n. 34 below.) Also to be noted are an address delivered November 21, 1903, before the Ohio chapter of the Society of Mayflower...

... elementary sensations but no conscious- ness, and hence no thoughts or feelings. His theory became im- mensely influential. For example, the school of Port Royal, ac- cording to La Fontaine, maintained the doctrine with ostentatious imperturbability : “They administered beatings to dogs...

.... Brenner, Clarence D. Dramatizations of French Short Stories in the Eigh- teenth Century. With Special Reference to the “Contes” of La Fontaine, Marmontel, and Voltaire. Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of Cali- fornia Publications in Modern Philology, Vol. 33, No. 1, 1947. Pp. 1-33...

...-machine. Even Catherine Descartes, niece of the philosopher, wrote verse in opposition to her uncle. From an esthetic standpoint, La Fontaine far overshadowed the other poets who discussed the problem; but the fact that a con- siderable number of versifiers dealt with so metaphysical...

..., but not an obvious one. One regrets the absence of a chapter on La Fontaine, not because the gods of traditional literary history need another libation but because a study of La Fontaine would have allowed Keenan to measure points of overlap and difference between his own work and that of critics...

..., Richard. Patterns of Irony in the “Fables”of La Fontaine. Athens, Ohio, and London: Ohio University Press, 1985. xii + 181 pp. $23.95. Duncan, Alastair B. (editor). Claude Simon: New Directions. Collected Papers. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1985. x + 166 pp. $16.50, paper. Dis...

... influence is attributed to the rhttoriqueurs and medieval poetry. Yet, a little later we are told that “there are several passages in Fontaine’s elegies where it is difficult to see where the influence of Petrarchism begins, and where mediaeval influence ends” (p. 111). It would be helpful to know...

... plus original.” Giraudoux himself modestly commented : “Je ne considere tout ce que j’ai fait que comme une espke de divagation poitique.” Now Mr. Brodin discovers in him “l’essence de l’esprit francais,” a genius of the family of La Fontaine, Voltaire, Renan. In another excellent...

.... $5.00. Blavier-Paquot, Simone. La Fontaine: Vues sur I’art du moraliste dans les fables de 1668. Paris : SociCtt d‘fidition “Les Belles Lettres,” Bibliothcque de la Facult6 de Philosophie et Lettres de 1’UniversitC de LiGge, No. 159, 1961. Pp. 159 + 16. Eustis, A. Marcel Arland...

...). Many lines are startling for their evocative and musical power : “Le cerf qui brame au bruit de l’eau” (p. 16) ; “L‘image de la mort passe au travers des flots” (p. 74) ; “Je me promhe seul dans l’horreur des forests” (p. 154) ; “Autour de nos fontaines vives / Toutes peintes d‘azur...

... are two delightful pieces from La Fontaine” (250–51). These finales reflect the nonargumentative flatness symptomatic of the last pieces in Swift and Others . This is a book of moments. Swift’s presence in the title and as an intermittent touchstone often feels incidental. How evoking the dean helps...

... University Bulletin, Series 54, No. 10-1, April, 1954. Pp. 174. Singleton, Charles S. Dante Studies No. 1. Commedia: Elements of Structure. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1954. Pp. viii + 98. $3.00. Sutherland, Monica. La Fontaine: The Man and His Work. London: Jonathan Cape, 1953...

... University Studies in Romance Languages and Literature, No. 2, 1959. Pp. ix + 220. $4.50. Champigny, Robert. Sur un heros paien: Les Essais XCIII. Paris: Gallimard, N.R.F., 1959. Pp. 208. 700 frs. Clarac, Pierre. La Fontaine. Nouvelle Cdition revue et corrigie. Paris : Hatier...

... y Rivera, Alejandro. Enardo and Rosael: An Allegorical Novella. New York: Philosophical Library, 1952. Pp. xix + 56. $2.75. Wadsworth, Philip A. Young La Fontaine: A Study of His Artistic Growth in His Early Poetry and First Fables. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern...

..., inattendues, qui ne sortent au mime degre d’aucun p&te des Cpoques, ni de Ronsard, ni de Corneille, ni des romantiques, une source de rCfCrences et d’allusions, une famili- aritC particulitke. Molii3re par le thCitre et La Fontaine par 1’Ccole sont ainsi entrCs dans la vie moyenne des...