Of Giants : Sex, Monsters, And The Middle Ages

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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 formationparticularly masculine...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Sex in literature.
Romances, English.
Psychoanalysis and literature.
Monsters in literature.
Literature and folklore.
Giants in literature.
English literature > Middle English.
English literature.
Difference (Psychology) in literature.
Abnormalities, Human, in literature.
Sexualite dans la litterature.
Monstres dans la litterature.
Roman courtois anglais > Histoire et critique.
Geants dans la litterature.
Litterature anglaise > 1100-1500 (Moyen anglais) > Histoire et critique.
Psychanalyse et litterature > Angleterre.
English literature > Old English, approximately 450-1100 > History and criticism.
Romances, English > History and criticism.
Literature and folklore > England > History > To 1500.
English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism.
Psychoanalysis and literature > England > History > To 1500.
Psychoanalysis and literature > England.
England.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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