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Paperback The Esthetics of Negligence: La Fontaine's Contes Book

ISBN: 0521107334

ISBN13: 9780521107334

The Esthetics of Negligence: La Fontaine's Contes

A collection of traditional humorous verse tales about the relationships between the sexes, La Fontaine's Contes have tended to be dismissed as merely scabrous, although they were favourably regarded by his contemporaries. In this book devoted to the Contes, Professor Lapp re-establishes them as repaying serious study, as examples of La Fontaine's skill in 'the esthetics of negligence'. This he defines in a striking opening chapter comparing La Fontaine...

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