SOURCE: "Functions of the Framework in La Fontaine's Psyché," in PMLA, Vol. 84, No. 3, May 1969, pp. 577-86.
In the following essay, Gross asserts that the narrative remarks which frame La Fontaine's story Psyché are meant to draw the reader's attention to the powerful effects of both nature and art on human emotion.
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