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  1. Of giants
    sex, monsters, and the Middle Ages
    Published: c1999
    Publisher:  University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis ; London

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  2. Of giants
    sex, monsters, and the Middle Ages
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis

    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... more

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    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

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0816632162; 0816689601; 0816632170; 9780816632169; 9780816689606; 9780816632176
    Series: Medieval cultures ; v. 17
    Subjects: Psychoanalysis and literature; Literature and folklore; Romances, English; Difference (Psychology) in literature; Abnormalities, Human, in literature; Monsters in literature; Sex in literature; English literature; English literature; Giants in literature
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 235 pages), illustrations
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  3. Of giants
    sex, monsters, and the Middle Ages
    Published: [1999]
    Publisher:  University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis

    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... more

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    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. The giant emerges here as an intimate stranger, a monster who stands at the limits of selfhood.Arguing that in the romance tradition of late fourteenth-century England, identity is inscribed on sexed bodies only through the agency of a monster, Cohen looks at the giant as the masculine body writ large. In the giant he sees an uncanny figure, absolutely other and curiously familiar, that serves to define the boundaries of masculine embodiment. Philosophically compelling, the book is also a philologically rigorous inquiry into the phenomenon of giants and giant-slaying in various texts from the Anglo-Saxon period to late Middle English, including Beowulf, Chrétien de Troyes’s The Knight and the Lion, Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of the Kings of Britain, several works by Chaucer, Sir Gowther, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and more.A significant contribution to our understanding of medieval culture, Of Giants also provides surprising insights into questions about the psychosocial work of representation in its key location for the individual: the construction of gender and the social formation of the boundaries of gender identification. It will engage students of the Middle Ages as well as those interested in discourses of the body, social identity, and the grotesque.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780816689606
    Series: Medieval cultures ; volume 17
    Subjects: Sex in literature; English literature; Abnormalities, Human, in literature; Monsters in literature; Literature and folklore; Romances, English; Giants in literature; English literature; Psychoanalysis and literature; Difference (Psychology) in literature; Difference (Psychology) in literature; English literature ; Middle English, 1100-1500 ; History and criticism; English literature ; Old English, ca. 450-1100 ; History and criticism; Giants in literature; Literature and folklore ; England ; History ; To 1500; Psychoanalysis and literature ; England ; History ; To 1500; Romances, English ; History and criticism; Electronic books
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 235 Seiten), Illustrationen
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    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

  4. Of giants
    sex, monsters, and the Middle Ages
    Published: [1999]
    Publisher:  University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis

    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... more

    Universität Potsdam, Universitätsbibliothek
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    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. The giant emerges here as an intimate stranger, a monster who stands at the limits of selfhood.Arguing that in the romance tradition of late fourteenth-century England, identity is inscribed on sexed bodies only through the agency of a monster, Cohen looks at the giant as the masculine body writ large. In the giant he sees an uncanny figure, absolutely other and curiously familiar, that serves to define the boundaries of masculine embodiment. Philosophically compelling, the book is also a philologically rigorous inquiry into the phenomenon of giants and giant-slaying in various texts from the Anglo-Saxon period to late Middle English, including Beowulf, Chrétien de Troyes’s The Knight and the Lion, Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of the Kings of Britain, several works by Chaucer, Sir Gowther, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and more.A significant contribution to our understanding of medieval culture, Of Giants also provides surprising insights into questions about the psychosocial work of representation in its key location for the individual: the construction of gender and the social formation of the boundaries of gender identification. It will engage students of the Middle Ages as well as those interested in discourses of the body, social identity, and the grotesque.

     

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    Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780816689606
    Series: Medieval cultures ; volume 17
    Subjects: Sex in literature; English literature; Abnormalities, Human, in literature; Monsters in literature; Literature and folklore; Romances, English; Giants in literature; English literature; Psychoanalysis and literature; Difference (Psychology) in literature; Difference (Psychology) in literature; English literature ; Middle English, 1100-1500 ; History and criticism; English literature ; Old English, ca. 450-1100 ; History and criticism; Giants in literature; Literature and folklore ; England ; History ; To 1500; Psychoanalysis and literature ; England ; History ; To 1500; Romances, English ; History and criticism; Electronic books
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 235 Seiten), Illustrationen
    Notes:

    Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

    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

  5. Of Giants
    Sex, Monsters, and the Middle Ages
    Published: 1999
    Publisher:  University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis ; ProQuest, Ann Arbor, Michigan

    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... more

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    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. The giant emerges here as an intimate stranger, a monster who stands at the limits of selfhood.Arguing that in the romance tradition of late fourteenth-century England, identity is inscribed on sexed bodies only through the agency of a monster, Cohen looks at the giant as the masculine body writ large. In the giant he sees an uncanny figure, absolutely other and curiously familiar, that serves to define the boundaries of masculine embodiment. Philosophically compelling, the book is also a philologically rigorous inquiry into the phenomenon of giants and giant-slaying in various texts from the Anglo-Saxon period to late Middle English, including Beowulf, Chrétien de Troyes's The Knight and the Lion, Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain, several works by Chaucer, Sir Gowther, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and more.A significant contribution to our understanding of medieval culture, Of Giants also provides surprising insights into questions about the psychosocial work of representation in its key location for the individual: the construction of gender and the social formation of the boundaries of gender identification. It will engage students of the Middle Ages as well as those interested in discourses of the body, social identity, and the grotesque.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780816689606
    RVK Categories: HH 1121
    Series: Medieval Cultures ; v.Vol 17
    Subjects: Altenglisch; Mittelenglisch; Literatur; Riese; Ungeheuer
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (258 pages)
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