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Record Number:
3168
Author(s)/Creator(s):
Wickham-Crowley , Kelley M.
Contributor(s):
Title:
Gowther Among the Dogs: Becoming Inhuman c. 1400
Source:
Becoming Male in the Middle Ages. Edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Bonnie Wheeler. Garland Publishing, 1997. Pages 219 - 244.
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Article Type:
Essay
Subject
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:
Body
Literature- Verse
Masculinity in Literature
Monsters
Psychoanalytic Theory
Sir Gowther, Middle English Romance
Award Note:
Geographic Area:
British Isles
Century:
15
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Abstract:
Using the postmodern identity theories of Gilles Deleuze and FĂ©lix Guattari, Cohen maps the gendering of a monstrous male body in a late Middle English Romance. the essay demonstrates that the medieval body is always in process, always in production. [Reproduced by permission of Garland Publishing at http://www.garlandpub.com].
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Author's Affiliation:
Georgetown University
Conference Info:
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Year of Publication:
1997.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
0815328362