▶
#326152 Letteratura Medievale

The Boundaries of the Human in Medieval English Literature.

Author
PublisherOxford University Press.
Date of publ.
Details cm.14x22, pp.257, legatura editoriale, sopraccoperta figurata a colori.
AbstractAnimals and wild men are everywhere in medieval culture, but their role in illuminating medieval constructions of humanity has never been properly explored. This book gathers together a large number of themes and subjects (including Bestiary, heraldry, and hunting), and examines them as part of a unified discourse about the body and its creative transformations. Human and animal are terms traditionally opposed to one another, but their relationship must always be characterized by a dynamic instability. Humans scout into the animal zone, manipulating and re-shaping animal bodies in accordance with their own social imagining–yet these forays are risky since they lead to questions about what humanity consists in, and whether it can ever be forfeited. Studies of birds, foxes, game animals, the wild man, and shape-shifting women fill out the argument of this book, which sheds new light on works by Chaucer, Gower, the Gawain-poet, and Henryson, as well as showing that many less familiar texts have rewards that an informed reading can reveal.
EAN9780198186748
ConditionsUsato, come nuovo
EUR 120.00
#326152Last copy
Add to Cart

Recently viewed...

Mito e attualità nelle odi di Pindaro. La Nemea 4, l'Olimpica 9, l'Olimpica 7.
Mito e attualità nelle odi di Pindaro. La Nemea 4, l'Olimpica 9, l'Olimpica 7.
Ediz.dell'Ateneo
1983, cm.14,5x22,5, pp.213, brossura. Coll.Filologia e Critica,4.
Usato, molto buono
#15313Available
€ 20.66 € 9.00
9782728304196-Satires Ménippées. 5.Evren n lopaj tò poama-Gerontodidàskaloj.
Satires Ménippées. 5.Evren n lopaj tò poama-Gerontodidàskaloj.
Ecole Française de Rome
1980, cm.17x24, pp.XIX-XXVIII,759-932, A-L. brossura soprac. Collection de l'Ecole Française de Rome,9/5.
Nuovo
#69682Available
€ 22.00 € 12.00
Vita di S. Antonio Maria Zaccaria fondatore De' Barnabiti e delle Angeliche.
Vita di S. Antonio Maria Zaccaria fondatore De' Barnabiti e delle Angeliche.
Tipografia di M.Ricci
1897, cm.15x23, pp.LXXXLII,599, 1 tavole bianco e nero in antiporta, brossura, Intonso.

✱ Slegato ma completo. Mancante della copertina anteriore.

Da collezione, accettabile
#131699Last copy
€ 21.00
Una teoria per la politica. Althusser nella cultura francese contemporanea.
Una teoria per la politica. Althusser nella cultura francese contemporanea.
ETS
1980, cm.15x21, pp.229, brossura, copertina figurata. Collana Filosofia e...,3.
Usato, buono
#322373Last copy
€ 18.00