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Autore |
Cohen Jeffrey Jerome |
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Titolo |
Of giants : sex, monsters, and the Middle Ages / / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1999 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xx, 235 p.) |
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Collana |
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Medieval cultures ; ; v. 17 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English literature - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism |
Giants in literature |
English literature - Old English, ca. 450-1100 - History and criticism |
Psychoanalysis and literature - England - History - To 1500 |
Literature and folklore - England - History - To 1500 |
Romances, English - History and criticism |
Difference (Psychology) in literature |
Abnormalities, Human, in literature |
Monsters in literature |
Sex in literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-229) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Intimate Stranger; 1. The Ruins of Identity; 2. Monstrous Origin: Body, Nation, Family; 3. The Body in Pieces: Identity and the Monstrous in Romance; 4. The Giant of Self-Figuration: Diminishing Masculinity in Chaucer's ""Tale of Sir Thopas""; 5. The Body Hybrid: Giants, Dog-Men, and Becoming Inhuman; 6. Exorbitance; Afterword: Transhistoricity; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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A monster lurks at the heart of medieval identity, and this book seeks him out. Reading a set of medieval texts in which giants and dismemberment figure prominently, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen brings a critical psychoanalytic perspective to bear on the question of identity formation-particularly masculine identity-in narrative representation. This is a compelling inquiry into the phenomenon of giants and giant-slaying in various texts from the Anglo-Saxon period to late Middle |
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English, including Beowulf, several works by Chaucer, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. |
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