Of Giants: Sex, Monsters, and the Middle Ages Volume 17

ISBN-13: 9780816632176 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 260 str.

Jeffrey Jerome Cohen; Jeffery Jerome Cohen

Opis

A psychoanalytic look at the representation of monsters, giants and masculinity in medieval texts. The phenomenon of giants and giant-slaying appear in various texts from the Anglo-Saxon to late Middle English period, including Beowulf, The Knight and the Lion, History of the Kings of Britain and several of Chaucer's books.