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Of giants : sex, monsters, and the Middle Ages / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome.
- Series:
- Medieval cultures ; v. 17.
- Medieval cultures ; v. 17
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Giants (Folklore) in literature.
- English literature--Old English, ca. 450-1100--History and criticism.
- Psychoanalysis and literature--England--History--To 1500.
- Psychoanalysis and literature.
- Literature and folklore--England--History--To 1500.
- Literature and folklore.
- Romances, English--History and criticism.
- Romances, English.
- Difference (Psychology) in literature.
- Abnormalities, Human, in literature.
- Monsters in literature.
- Sex in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 235 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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 formation-particularly masculine identity-in 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-229) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-8960-1
- OCLC:
- 476094646
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