1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453400503321

Titolo

Readings in Arab Middle Eastern societies and cultures [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Abdulla M. Lutfiyya and Charles W. Churchill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

The Hague, : Mouton, 1970

ISBN

3-11-081574-5

Edizione

[Reprint 2012]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (751 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ChurchillCharles W <1911-> (Charles Wesley)

LutfiyyaAbdulla M

Disciplina

309.1/174/927

Soggetti

HISTORY / Ancient / General

Electronic books.

Arab countries Social life and customs

Arab countries Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Label mounted on t.p.: Humanities Press, New York.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

section 1. Social organization -- section 2. Culture -- section 3. Social institutions and cultural change -- section 4. Social stratification -- section 5. The family -- section 6. Urban life -- section 7. The role of communication.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910954160103321

Autore

Cohen Jeffrey Jerome

Titolo

Of giants : sex, monsters, and the Middle Ages / / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1999

ISBN

0-8166-8960-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xx, 235 p.)

Collana

Medieval cultures ; ; v. 17

Disciplina

820.9/37

Soggetti

English literature - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism

Giants (Folklore) 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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-229) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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



English, including Beowulf, several works by Chaucer, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.