Reynard the Fox : : Cultural Metamorphoses and Social Engagement in the Beast Epic from the Middle Ages to the Present / / ed. by Kenneth Varty.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Block, Elaine C.,; Daele, Rik van,; Dufournet, Jean,; Goossens, Jan,; Mann, Jill,; Pastré, Jean-Marc,; Schouwink, Wilfried,; Stephenson, Roger H.,; Subrenat, Jean,; Suomela-Härmä, Elina,; Varty, Kenneth,; Wackers, Paul,
• HerausgeberIn: Varty, Kenneth,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2000]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Language: English
• Series: Polygons: Cultural Diversities and Intersections ; 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (326 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- 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: BETWEEN LITERATURE AND SOCIETY -- 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: THE METAMORPHOSES OF A COMIC MOTIF -- CHAPTER 15. THE FOX AND THE HARE: AN ODD COUPLE -- THE CONTRIBUTORS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX OF NAMES AND TITLES