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Contents
The Ruins of Identity | 1 |
Monstrous Origin Body Nation Family | 29 |
The Body in Pieces Identity and the Monstrous in Romance | 62 |
The Giant of SelfFiguration Diminishing Masculinity in Chaucers Tale of Sir Thopas | 96 |
The Body Hybrid Giants DogMen and Becoming Inhuman | 119 |
Exorbitance | 142 |
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References to this book
Absent Narratives, Manuscript Textuality, and Literary Structure in Late ... Elizabeth Scala No preview available - 2002 |
Chaucer's Body: The Anxiety of Circulation in the "Canterbury Tales" Richard Allen Shoaf No preview available - 2001 |
Bibliographic information
| Title | Of Giants: Sex, Monsters, and the Middle Ages |
| Author | Jeffrey Jerome Cohen |
| Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
| ISBN | 1452903662, 9781452903668 |
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