Of Giants: Sex, Monsters, and the Middle Ages

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U of Minnesota Press, 1999 - Abnormalities, Human, in literature - 235 pages
 

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
Transhistoricity
185
Notes
187
Bibliography
211
Index
231
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