Reading Skin in Medieval Literature and Culture

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Gebonden, blz. | Engels
Palgrave Macmillan US | e druk, 2013
ISBN13: 9780230338708
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Palgrave Macmillan US e druk, 2013 9780230338708
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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.

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ISBN13:9780230338708
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan US

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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

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