The Modern Language Review, July 1st, 2000
Reading Undercover: Audience and Authority in Jean de La Fontaine. By ANNE L. BIRBERICK. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1998. 160 pp. 27 [pounds sterling].
Anne Birberick approaches La Fontaine from an interesting and original angle, classifying his work according to the people for whom he writes. She discovers five types of reader. First come the academic readers, somewhat narrow-minded, antagonistic to poetic licence, but needing to be courted as well as subverted; in the Preface to the Fables, La Fontaine adopts a conciliatory tone toward...
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