Item
In La Fontaine's Labyrinth: A Thread through the Fables
- Title
- en_US In La Fontaine's Labyrinth: A Thread through the Fables
- en_US EMF Critiques
- Description
- Randolph Paul Runyon
- Creator
- en_US Runyon, Randolph Paul See all items with this value
- Date
- 2022-11-07T16:12:54Z
- 2022-03
- en_US 2000
- Date Available
- 2022-11-07T16:12:54Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 2000
- Abstract
- en_US I have not been able to study this book, but I want to give some sense of what I believe it offers. First, it is so good to see someone besides those in France who examines La Fontaine carefully today. Bravo! I believe that there is -- as of yet -- no system of comprehensive understanding of La Fontaine based on "placement" of books or of fables in books. Classicists like yours truly are accustomed to finding significant literary inference from structure. Runyon first reviews efforts to discern a structure at work in La Fontaine's twelve books of fables. He then works to notice "a connective tissue" linking each fable with those next to it. This method will no doubt bring to the surface connections not previously appreciated. The further question, I suppose, for such a method is "What about the overall structure?" With La Fontaine, there will surely always be more to probe!
- Identifier
- en_US 13149 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Rockwood Press
- en_US Charlottesville, VA
- Subject
- Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection