Of Giants
Subtitle
Sex, Monsters, And The Middle Ages
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.
Bio
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen is professor of English and dean of humanities in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University.
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