Inconceivable beasts : the Wonders of the East in the Beowulf manuscript /
Mittman, Asa Simon,1976-
Kim, Susan M.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: conceiving of the inconceivable -- The wonders of the East -- The dittology of the tripled double men -- Naked monsters and men in monster suits: looking at the body in the Beowulf manuscript -- Monstrous genitals -- Framing "the real": spatial relations on the page and in the world -- "In the same place": the location of identity in the wonders -- "Whate'er the fury of the flames has spar'd": vision, loss, and the Wonders of the East -- "Be hwilcum cnottum": concluding gestures.
De rebus in Oriente mirabilibus.
Beowulf.
Literature, Medieval
English literature
Monsters in literature.