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Record Nr.

UNINA9910955657303321

Autore

Varty Kenneth

Titolo

Reynard the Fox : social engagement and cultural metamorphoses in the beast epic from the Middle Ages to the present

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : Berghahn Books, 2000

ISBN

1-57181-737-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 pages)

Collana

Polygons  Reynard the Fox

Disciplina

809/.93374

Soggetti

Languages & Literatures

Literature - General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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