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Of giants [[electronic resource] ] : sex, monsters, and the Middle Ages / / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen



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Autore: Cohen Jeffrey Jerome Visualizza persona
Titolo: Of giants [[electronic resource] ] : sex, monsters, and the Middle Ages / / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1999
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xx, 235 p.)
Disciplina: 820.9/37
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Of giants  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8166-8960-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910451738803321
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Serie: Medieval cultures ; ; v. 17.