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

by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

Considers what monsters tell us about identity in the medieval period.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816632170
• ISBN13: 9780816632176
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"