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Published: 
May 1999
Publisher: 
University of Minnesota Press

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  • Department of English
  • The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
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Of Giants

Sex, Monsters, And The Middle Ages
Author: 
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

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.

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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen is professor of English and dean of humanities in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University.