Reynard the Fox
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Reynard the Fox

Cultural Metamorphoses and Social Engagement in the Beast Epic from the Middle Ages to the Present

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  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Reynard the Fox

Cultural Metamorphoses and Social Engagement in the Beast Epic from the Middle Ages to the Present

About this book

There are many stories featuring the villainous hero Reynard the Fox in many languages told over many centuries, goingback as far as the early 12th century. All these stories are comic and much of the humour depends on parody and satire resulting in mockery, sometimes the subversion of certain kinds of serious literature, of political and religious institutions and practices, of scholarly argument and moralizing, and of popular beliefs and customs. The contributors to this volume, all of them experts in one or more of the Reynard stories and their backgrounds, focus on the transformation of these tales through various media and to what extent they reflect differences in the cultural, class, and generational background of their tellers.

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Information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2000
Print ISBN
9781571814227, 9781571817372
eBook ISBN
9781785330551
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
World History
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Series Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter 1. The Satiric Fiction of the Ysengrimus
  9. Chapter 2. Rape and Adultery
  10. Chapter 3. Morals, Justice and Geopolitics in the Reinhart Fuchs of the Alsatian Heinrich Der Glichezaere
  11. Chapter 4. Medieval French and Dutch Renardian Epics
  12. Chapter 5. The Printed Dutch Reynaert Tradition
  13. Chapter 6. The Flemish Reynaert as an Ideological Weapon
  14. Chapter 7. The Ill-Fated Consequence of the Tom-Cat's Jump, and Its Illustration
  15. Chapter 8. Choir-Stall Carvings of Reynard and Other Foxes
  16. Chapter 9. Reynard in England: From Caxton to the Present
  17. Chapter 10. Hartmann Schopper's Latin Reinike of 1567
  18. Chapter 11. The Political Import of Goethe's Reineke Fuchs
  19. Chapter 12. Paul Weber's Satirical Use of Reineke in Cartoon Form
  20. Chapter 13. The Death and Resurrection of the Roman de Renart
  21. Chapter 14. The Fox and the Wolf in the Well
  22. Chapter 15. The Fox and the Hare
  23. The Contributors
  24. Bibliography
  25. Index of Names and Titles