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What do stories about animals have to tell us about human beings? This book analyzes the shrewd perceptions about human life - and especially human language - that emerge from narratives in which the main figures are 'talking animals'. Its guiding question is not 'what' but 'how' animals mean. Using this question to draw a clear distinction between beast fable and beast epic, it goes on to examine the complex variations of these forms that are to be found in the literature of medieval Britain, in English, French, Latin, and Scots. The range, variety, and brilliant inventiveness of this tradition are demonstrated in chapters on the fables of Marie de France, the Speculum stultorum of Nigel of Longchamp (the comic adventures of a donkey), the debate poem The Owl and the Nightingale, Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls and the tales of the Squire, Manciple and Nun's Priest, the Reynardian tale of The Fox and the Wolf, and the Moral Fabillis of Robert Henryson. English translations provided for all quotations make the works discussed accessible to the modern reader.

Thematology --- Old English literature --- English literature --- French literature --- Latin literature, Medieval and modern --- Animals in literature --- Animals, Mythical, in literature --- History and criticism --- English literature - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism --- French literature - To 1500 - History and criticism --- Latin literature, Medieval and modern - History and criticism --- Littérature anglaise --- Animaux fabuleux --- 1100-1500 (moyen anglais) --- Histoire et critique --- Avant 1500 --- Dans la littérature

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Medieval Latin literature --- Animals --- -Reynard the Fox (Legendary character) --- -Fables, Latin (Medieval and modern) --- -Latin fables, Medieval and modern --- Reinaert de Vos (Legendary character) --- Reinke de Vos (Legendary character) --- Renart (Legendary character) --- Legends --- Animal kingdom --- Beasts --- Fauna --- Native animals --- Native fauna --- Wild animals --- Wildlife --- Organisms --- Human-animal relationships --- Zoology --- Poetry --- Translations into English --- Fables, Latin (Medieval and modern) --- Reynard the Fox (Legendary character) --- Poetry. --- Translations into English. --- -Poetry --- Latin fables, Medieval and modern

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An investigation of Chaucer's thinking about women, assessed in the light of developments in feminist criticism. Women are a major subject of Chaucer's writings, and their place in his work has attracted much recent critical attention. Feminizing Chaucer investigates Chaucer's thinking about women, and re-assesses it in the light of developments in feminist criticism. It explores Chaucer's handling of gender issues, of power roles, of misogynist stereotypes and the writer's responsibility for perpetuating them, and the complex meshing of activity and passivityin human experience. Mann argues that the traditionally 'female' virtues of patience and pity are central to Chaucer's moral ethos, and that this necessitates a reformulation of ideal masculinity. First published [as Geoffrey Chaucer] in the series 'Feminist Readings', this new edition includes a new chapter, 'Wife-Swapping in Medieval Literature'. The references and bibliography have been updated, and a new preface surveys publications in the field over the last decade. JILL MANN is currently Notre Dame Professor of English, University of Notre Dame.

CHAUCER (GEOFFREY), 1340-1400 --- FEMINISME ET LITTERATURE --- FEMMES --- FEMMES DANS LA LITTERATURE --- PERSONNAGES --- ET LE FEMINISME --- GRANDE-BRETAGNE --- JUSQUE 1500 --- 500-1500, MOYAEN-AGE --- Feminism and literature --- Women and literature --- Women --- Women in literature. --- History --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, --- Characters --- Women. --- Views on feminism. --- Chaucer's thinking. --- Female virtues. --- Feminist criticism. --- Gender roles. --- Literary analysis. --- Masculinity. --- Medieval literature. --- Misogynist stereotypes. --- Power roles. --- Wife-swapping. --- Characters.

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Chaucer, Geoffrey --- 820 "13" CHAUCER, GEOFFREY --- Engelse literatuur--?"13"--CHAUCER, GEOFFREY --- 820 "13" CHAUCER, GEOFFREY Engelse literatuur--?"13"--CHAUCER, GEOFFREY --- -Criticism and interpretation --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, --- Chaucer, Jeffrey, --- Chʻiao-sou, Chieh-fu-lei, --- Chieh-fu-lei Chʻiao-sou, --- Choser, Dzheffri, --- Choser, Zheoffreĭ, --- Cosvr, Jvoffrvi, --- Tishūsar, Zhiyūfrī, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Critique et interprétation --- Critique et interprétation --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, - -1400 - Criticism and interpretation - Handbooks, manuals, etc --- Chaucer, Geoffrey - Criticism and interpretation --- Critique et interprétation. --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, - -1400

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"The twelfth-century Latin beast epic Ysengrimus is one of the great comic masterpieces of the Middle Ages. This long poem, composed in what is today Belgium, recounts the relentless persecution of the wolf Ysengrimus by his archenemy Reynard the fox, in the course of which the wolf is beaten to a pulp, flayed (twice), mutilated, and finally eaten alive by sixty-six pigs. The cartoon-like violence of the narrative is not motivated by a gratuitous delight in cruelty but by a specific satiric aim: the wolf represents the hybrid ecclesiastic who is both abbot and bishop, whose greed is comparable to the wolf's. The details of the narrative are carefully crafted to make the wolf's punishment fit the abbot-bishop's crime, creating a topsy-turvy world in which the predator becomes prey. In the elaborate rhetorical fantasies that accompany the narrative, the wolf's tortures are represented as honors (for example, his flaying is mockingly represented as an episcopal consecration). This poem gave rise to a whole body of narratives, beginning with the earliest branches of the Romance of Renard and extending into most of the European vernaculars, so influential that the name Renard eventually became the standard word for fox in French." -- Publisher's website.

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