Reynard the Fox: Cultural Metamorphoses and Social Engagement in the Beast Epic from the Middle Ages to the PresentKenneth Varty 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. |
Contents
The Satiric Fiction of the Ysengrimus | 1 |
Reflected Facets of Feudal Justice | 17 |
Morals Justice and Geopolitics in the Reinhart Fuchs | 37 |
The Flemish Reynaert As An Ideological Weapon | 105 |
ChoirStall Carvings of Reynard and Other Foxes | 125 |
Hartmann Schoppers Latin Reinike of 1567 | 175 |
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Reynard the Fox: Social Engagement and Cultural Metamorphoses in the Beast ... Elaine C. Block No preview available - 2000 |
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