The Complete Fables of Jean de La Fontaine

Bibliography

447 For the vast bibliography of secondary works relating to La Fontaine, I mention here, as in my previous volumes, only those book-length studies in English: Biard, Jean Dominique. The Style of La Fontaine’s “Fables” (Oxford: Blackwell, 1966). Birberick, Anne L. ed. Refiguring La Fontaine: Tercentenary Essays (Charlottesville, Va.: Rockwood Press, 1996). Danner, Richard. Patterns of Irony in the “Fables” of La Fontaine (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1985). Guiton, Margaret. La Fontaine, Poet and Counterpoet (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1961). Hamel, Frank. Jean de La Fontaine (London: Stanley Paul, 1911; rpt., Port Washington , N.Y: Kennikat Press, 1970). King, Ethel M. Jean de La Fontaine (Brooklyn: Gaus, 1970). Mackey, Agnes Ethel. La Fontaine and His Friends (New York: Braziller, 1973). Rubin, David Lee. A Pact with Silence: Art and Thought in the Fables of Jean de La Fontaine (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1991). Slater, Maya. The Craft of La Fontaine (London: Athlone Press; Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh -Dickinson University Press, 2001). Sutherland, Monica. La Fontaine (London: Jonathan Cape, 1953; rpt., London: Jonathan Cape, 1974). Sweetser, Marie-Odile. La Fontaine (Boston: Twayne, 1987). Vincent, Michael. Figures of the Text: Reading and Writing in La Fontaine (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamin, 1992). Wadsworth, Philip. Young La Fontaine (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1952). The following, while devoted primarily to La Fontaine’s less generally well-known Contes (1665–74), contains stylistic observations applicable as well to his Fables: Lapp, John Clarke. The Esthetics of Negligence: La Fontaine’s “Contes” (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971). ...