Of Giants : Sex, Monsters, and the Middle Ages.

Of Giants : Sex, Monsters, and the Middle Ages.

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 formationparticularly masculine...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
Series:Medieval cultures.
Subjects:
To 1500
Psychoanalysis and literature > England.
Psychoanalysis and literature > England > History > To 1500.
English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism.
Giants (Folklore) in literature.
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.
English literature > Old English, approximately 450-1100 > History and criticism.
Abnormalities, Human, in literature
Difference (Psychology) in literature
English literature
English literature > Middle English
Giants in literature
Literature and folklore
Monsters in literature
Psychoanalysis and literature
Romances, English
Sex in literature
England
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Table of 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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