Foreign Literature Studies ›› 2017, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (3): 53-59.

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On La Fontaine Fables's “Menippean Satire”

Wang Jia, Yang Fen   

  • Online:2017-06-25 Published:2022-06-15
  • About author:Wang Jia is associate professor at the School of Foreign Languages, Central China Normal University (Wuhan 430079, China), mainly engaged in the study of French literature and translatology. Email: andrewangjia@126.com; Yang Fen is professor at the School of Foreign Languages, Central China Normal University (Wuhan 430079, China). Her research field is French literature. Email: 869487790@qq.com

Abstract: A great deal of artistic characteristics, which are different from classicism and contemporary other schools of literature, have been displayed in Fables of La Fontaine. This unique technique of creation is quite similar to menippean satire expounded in Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics of Bakhtin: imaginative and grotesque story, witty and humorous language style, work's external and internal dialogism, varied types of writing, luxuriant option for contemporary socio-political problems and carnival atmosphere, etc. Fables is a successful practice based on menippean satire which derives from socratic dialogue. This way of creation makes La Fontaine's fables become a classic in the history of French literature.

Key words: Fables, La Fontaine, menippean satire

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