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Author Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome

Title Of Giants : Sex, Monsters, and the Middle Ages
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (258 pages)
Series Medieval Cultures
Medieval cultures.
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
Summary 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 identityin 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
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Subject 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
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780816689606
0816689601