 | Of Giants: Sex, Monsters, and the Middle Ages Subjects: English literature -- Middle English 1100-1500 -- History and criticism; Giants in literature; English literature -- Old English ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism; Psychoanalysis and literature -- England -- History -- To 1500; Literature and folklo; 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 formationOCoparticularly masculine identityOCoin 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." |
