SOURCE: "Narrative Techniques in the Contes et Nouvelles en Vers of La Fontaine," in French Literature Series, Vol. 11, 1975, pp. 27-38.
In the following essay, Cauley argues that La Fontaine uses his Contes or Tales to examine narrative itself, relying as he does upon such techniques as narrators within the narrative, "authorial interventions," and interruptions by those who are listening to the tale within the tale.
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