Deformed Discourse - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Deformed Discourse write by David Williams. This book was released on 1999. Deformed Discourse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Adult survivors of children's stories can be forgiven for thinking the only function of medieval monsters was to fail, just barely, to eat virgins and to die, just barely, under the hero's ministrations. Williams (English, McGill U.) enlarges the view, tracing the poetics of teratology, the study of monsters, to Christian neoplatonic theology, especially the concept that God cannot be known except by knowing what he is not. He also provides a taxonomy of monsters with glosses, and examines the monstrous and deformed in three heroic sagas and three saints' lives. Includes many reproductions. Canadian card order number: C96-900457-5. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Deformed Discourse
Deformed Discourse - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Deformed Discourse write by Professor David A Williams, PhD. This book was released on 2013-10-11. Deformed Discourse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Deformed Discourse David Williams explores the concept of the monster in the Middle Ages, examining its philosophical and theological roots and analysing its symbolic function in medieval literature and art.
A Companion to Marsilius of Padua
A Companion to Marsilius of Padua - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Companion to Marsilius of Padua write by Gerson Moreno-Riano. This book was released on 2011-10-14. A Companion to Marsilius of Padua available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Few authors of the Latin Middle Ages have been the subject of so much attention as Marsilius of Padua (c. 1275-1342/43). Known primarily for his Defensor pacis, Marsilius quickly garnered for himself the reputation of being a heretic as well as a schismatic. At the same time, however, it became evident that he was perhaps one of the brightest - if not most dangerous - thinkers of the fourteenth century. The political ideas and activities of Marsilius of Padua have engendered a substantial literature and numerous debates. The present volume serves as a much needed guide to the life and works of the Paduan thinker. It provides readers with a scholarly treatment and evaluation of the various interpretative schools and debates concerning Marsilus based on the latest relevant research. As such, the present volume will appeal to scholars interested in the importance and influence of one of the greatest authors of the European Middle Ages. Contributors include: Gerson Moreno-Riaño, Cary J. Nederman, Frank Godthardt, William Courtenay, Michael Sweeney, Gianluca Briguglia, Takashi Shogimen, Roberto Lambertini, Bettina Koch, and Thomas Izbicki.
Literary Hybrids
Literary Hybrids - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Literary Hybrids write by Erika E. Hess. This book was released on 2004-08-02. Literary Hybrids available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Much like the fantastic marginalia of medieval illuminated manuscripts, medieval and modern hybrid characters-including werewolves, serpent women, and wild men-function as a frame, critiquing the discourses that run through their texts. In Literary Hybrids, Erika Hess provides a close reading of one such hybrid-the female cross-dresser in thirteenth-century French romance-examining the interplay between physical and narrative ambiguity. Hess argues that the hybrid figure in medieval and contemporary French literature challenges the traditionally accepted natural order, upsets rational thinking, and underscores a concern with totalizing discourses or perspectives.
Plain ugly
Plain ugly - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Plain ugly write by Naomi Baker. This book was released on 2021-06-15. Plain ugly available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Plain ugly examines depictions of physically repellent characters in a striking range of early modern literary and visual texts, offering fascinating insights into the ways in which ugliness and deformity were perceived and represented, particularly with regard to gender and the construction of identity. Available in paperback for the first time, the book focuses closely on English literary culture but also engages with wider European perspectives, drawing on a wide array of primary sources including Italian and other European visual art. Offering illuminating close readings of texts from both high and low culture, it will interest scholars in English literature, cultural studies, women’s studies, history and art history, as well as postgraduate and undergraduate students in these disciplines. As an accessible and absorbing account of the power dynamics informing depictions of ugliness (and beauty) in relation to some of the quirkiest literary and visual material to be found in early modern culture, it will also appeal to a wider audience.
