Echo des Etudes Romanes (Dec 2015)

Renart, personnage des frontières

  • Konan Yao Lambert

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 2
pp. 57 – 69

Abstract

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This study focuses on Reynard, the major character of all aspects of Reynard romance as an elusive and unstable hero, on the edge and always ready to lead astray its enemies as well as the members of the audience or readers. Accepting a changing and rippling identity, fluctuating between cunningness and satanism. This character is at the same time changeability and boundary (combines animal and human traces) and it symbolizes the human struggle between the Good and the Evil.

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