Renard the Fox

Title

en_US Renard the Fox

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Original language: fro

en_US Apparent first edition

en_US Rachel Anderson and David Bradby

Creator

en_US Anderson, Rachel See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Dewar, Bob

Date

2016-01-25T16:07:42Z

en_US 1994-03

en_US 1986

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:07:42Z

Date Issued

en_US 1986

Abstract

en_US A very nice oversized book with lively colored and black-and-white illustrations. I do not know this tradition well. Much here is new to me. After the fall, God pitied Adam and Eve and gave them a stick. When Adam struck the sea with the stick, gentle beasts came forth from the water; when Eve struck, wild beasts like the wolf and the fox came out. The book's first incident involves a church harvest festival; the wolf gets drunk and caught and beaten in a server's cassock and surplice. He feels betrayed by the fox. The crow's cheese drops from his claws through inattention caused by trying to sing well. The wolf ties the bucket to his tail so that fish can swim into it. He loses his tail when the lord of the manor hacks at him with his sword and hits near his tail. There is little focus here on Reynard's wife or children. The fish swipe story involves a string of eels which Reynard makes into a necklace, not fish tossed one by one onto the road. Pertelotte becomes Pauline in Renard and the Rooster (50). The wolf sees a rival wolf in the well in which Reynard is stuck (61). Reynard tells the wolf I am dead now. The only way into paradise is by bucket. Come down!

Identifier

en_US 192741292

en_US 1817 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/77383

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Oxford University Press

en_US Oxford

Subject

en_US PZ7.A53 Ren 1986 See all items with this value

en_US Reynard See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole