Reynard the Fox as Anti-Hero
- Author / Editor
- Bidard, Josseline.
Reynard the Fox as Anti-Hero
- Published
- Leo Carruthers, ed. Heroes and Heroines in Medieval English Literature:A Festschrift Presented to Andre Crepin on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday ( Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 1994), pp. 119-23.
- Description
- In medieval beast fables, including NPT, the fox is a figure of vice. Neither his basic animalism nor his comic villainy qualifies him as an anti-hero, but his consistent distortion of truth does.
- Alternative Title
- Heroes and Heroines in Medieval English Literature: A Festschrift Presented to Andre Crepin on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale.