本文作为“文学兽类学系列研究”中对“狐狸”一支的研究，开拓了从兽的视角研究文学的新途径。在世界文学的范围内，借鉴文学人类学的研究成果和方法，对古今中外与“狐狸”密切相关的代表性文学作品（如：中国蒲松龄的《聊斋志异》、法国的《列那狐的故事》、英国劳伦斯的《狐》和加拿大汤•西顿的《我所知道的野生动物》等）进行剖析，挖掘出隐藏在狐狸形象背后的历史驱动力。文章以狐狸的自然属性为依据，以人类社会的客观需求为切入点，从叙事视角的角度对狐狸形象存在的意义进行概括，进而，以此为基础对文学兽类学存在与发展的世界性意义进行初步的探究。

As one of the literary therology research series，this paper deals with a study on fox and opens up new paths to literature research from the perspective of animals．Within the range of World Literary, it takes works From ancient and modern, like Pu Songling’s Fairy Ghost Vixen Of China，Reynard The Fox Of France， David Herbert Lawrence’s Fox of England and Ernest Seton Thompson’s The Wild Animal Stories That I know Etc，to analyze, and then points out the Historical driving force hidden behind fox with the methods and achievements of literary anthropology. On the basis of fox’s nature attributes, this thesis chooses the objective needs of the human as the entry point and summarizes the significance of the existence of fox in the literature from the perspective of narratology.And then based on the foundation of summary,this paper makes a preliminary inquiry of the worldwide significance of literary Therology’existence and development