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Record Number:
11726
Author(s)/Creator(s):
Dunton-Downer , Leslie.
Contributor(s):
Title:
Wolf Man
Source:
Becoming Male in the Middle Ages. Edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Bonnie Wheeler. Garland Publishing, 1997. Pages 203 - 218.
Description:
Article Type:
Essay
Subject
(See Also)
:
Literature- Verse
Marie de France, Poet- Lais- Bisclavret
Masculinity in Literature
Supernatural
Violence in Literature
Werewolves
Award Note:
Geographic Area:
British Isles;France
Century:
12
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Abstract:
Werewolf literature efficiently sets questions of gender against those of humanness. Marie de France's "Bisclavret," examined here, asks whether maleness and humanness constitute two mutually exclusives kinds of identities. [Reproduced by permission of Garland Publishing at http://www.garlandpub.com].
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Conference Info:
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Year of Publication:
1997.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
0815328362