Reading Skin in Medieval Literature and Culture
(Sprache: Englisch)
Skin is a multifarious image in medieval culture: the material basis for forming a sense of self and relation to the world, as well as a powerful literary and visual image. This book explores the presence of skin in medieval literature and culture from a...
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Skin is a multifarious image in medieval culture: the material basis for forming a sense of self and relation to the world, as well as a powerful literary and visual image. This book explores the presence of skin in medieval literature and culture from a range of literary, religious, aesthetic, historical, medical, and theoretical perspectives.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Reading Skin in Medieval Literature and Culture “
Introduction; Katie L. Walter 1. Wondrous Skins and Tactile Affection: The Blemmye's Touch; Lara Farina 2. Noli me tangere : The Enigma of Touch in Middle English Religious Literature and Art for and about Women; Elizabeth Robertson 3. Havelok's Bare Life and the Significance of Skin; Robert Mills 4. The Medieval Werewolf Model of Reading Skin; Susan Small 5. Cutaneous Time in the Late Medieval Literary Imagination; Isabel Davis 6. The Form of the Formless: Medieval Taxonomies of Skin, Flesh and the Human; Katie L. Walter 7. Discerning Skin: Complexion, Surgery and Language in Medieval Confession; Virginia Langum 8. Desire and Defacement in The Testament of Cresseid ; Julie Orlemanski 9. Touching Back: Responding to Reading Skin ; Karl Steel
Autoren-Porträt
Isabel Davis; Birkbeck College, University of London, UK Lara Farina; West Virginia University, USA Virgina Langum; Umeå University, Sweden Robert Mills; University College London, UK Julie Orlemanski; Boston College, USA Elizabeth Robertson; University of Glasgow, UK Susan Small; King's University College at the University of Western Ontario, Canada Karl Steel; Brooklyn College of CUNY, USA
Bibliographische Angaben
- 2013, 2013., 225 Seiten, Maße: 21,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Herausgegeben:Walter, K.
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN-10: 0230338704
- ISBN-13: 9780230338708
Sprache:
Englisch
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