Reynard the Fox
Cultural Metamorphoses and Social Engagement in the Beast Epic from the Middle Ages to the Present
Published on 1. October 2000
326 pages
978-1-78533-055-1 (ISBN)
Description
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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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Bibliography; Index
File size
21,54 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78533-055-1 (9781785330551)
DOI
10.3167/9781571817372
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Kenneth Varty
Reynard the Fox
Cultural Metamorphoses and Social Engagement in the Beast Epic from the Middle Ages to the Present
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Kenneth Varty
Reynard the Fox
Cultural Metamorphoses and Social Engagement in the Beast Epic from the Middle Ages to the Present
Book
11/2000
1st Edition
Berghahn Books, Incorporated
€146.30
Shipment within 3-4 weeks
Person
Kenneth Varty is Professor Emeritus and Honorary Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. He is the Founder and first President of the International Reynard Society (and currently its Honorary President) and founder and Chairman ofthe editorial board of Reinardus, its yearbook. He has also been Vice-President of the British Branch of the International Arthurian Society since 1977.
Content
- Intro
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The Satiric Fiction of the Ysengrimus
- Chapter 2. Rape and Adultery
- Chapter 3. Morals, Justice and Geopolitics in the Reinhart Fuchs of the Alsatian Heinrich Der Glichezaere
- Chapter 4. Medieval French and Dutch Renardian Epics
- Chapter 5. The Printed Dutch Reynaert Tradition
- Chapter 6. The Flemish Reynaert as an Ideological Weapon
- Chapter 7. The Ill-Fated Consequence of the Tom-Cat's Jump, and Its Illustration
- Chapter 8. Choir-Stall Carvings of Reynard and Other Foxes
- Chapter 9. Reynard in England: From Caxton to the Present
- Chapter 10. Hartmann Schopper's Latin Reinike of 1567
- Chapter 11. The Political Import of Goethe's Reineke Fuchs
- Chapter 12. Paul Weber's Satirical Use of Reineke in Cartoon Form
- Chapter 13. The Death and Resurrection of the Roman de Renart
- Chapter 14. The Fox and the Wolf in the Well
- Chapter 15. The Fox and the Hare
- The Contributors
- Bibliography
- Index of Names and Titles
