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Reynard the Fox: Social Engagement and Cultural Metamorphoses in the Beast Epic from the Middle Ages to the Present.(Book Review)
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April 1, 2003|
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Edited by Kenneth Varty. New York: Berghahn Books, 2000. 57 B/W illus, xxi + 298 pp. 47.00 [pounds sterling] (hbk). ISBN 1-57181-737-9
The present collection of fifteen essays explores various aspects of the vulpine beast-epic from the mid-twelfth-century Flemish Latin Ysengrimus, via the canonical telling in the ever-expanding French Roman de Renart, to such later manifestations as Chaucer's Nun's Priest's Tale and post-medieval retellings such as Hartmann Schopper's neo-Latin Reinike (1567), Goethe's Reineke Fuchs (1794), and even twentieth-century cartoon versions ...
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