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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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Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1999 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
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 | |
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 ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-8166-8960-1 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910812929203321 |
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