The epic of Reynard the Fox is the result of a process of contamination, processing and enrichment, starting from the moment the original branches of the fox story were collected in France with the title of Roman de Renart, until today. The adventures of Reynard Fox have spread not merely from an original center (France) towards the periphery, but according to a polycentric path with a first phase in which the French nucleus was the hub, and a second in which the Flemish version, Reynaerts historie, it has become the reference model, and finally a third, with the modern age, in which its success is mainly due to the version by Goethe. This article focuses on the evolution of the hero figure that, being orginally a representative of the feudal society vices, turns into the spokesman of the author's ideas with Goethe, and finally becomes the hero of a wide childhood literature, the protagonist of school editions and even comics. - {Abstract]

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ISBN: 978-88-6453-414-5