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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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Albina Anglo-Saxon appears argues Arthur battle becomes biblical body Britain Brutus called Carl Chaucer chivalric Christian complete construction contains continued corporeality cultural death defeat described desire effect embodiment England English enjoyment episode example excess exists fantasy father fight figure final flesh follows force fragment Gawain gender Geoffrey giant gives Gowther head hero heroic human identity imagined insists kind king knight land language Latin limits living male masculinity material meaning medieval Middle Ages monster monstrous mother myth narrative nature never object offers once origin past performance perhaps poem possibility present produced proper reading relation represents romance Saint scene severed sexual signifier Sir Gawain Sir Thopas social speak story structure suggests symbolic Tale thing tion tradition transformed translation women writes
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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