Inconceivable beasts
Subtitle: the Wonders of the East in the Beowulf manuscript
By: Asa Simon Mittman, Department of Art and Art History, California State University, Chico and Susan M. Kim, Department of English, Illinois State University
Contributors: Kim, Susan M.
Series: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies -- Volume 433
Publisher: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies; Brand: ACMRS Publications; ACMRS Publications
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Tempe, Arizona
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780866984812
Subjects: Medieval Literature; History and criticism; English literature; Monsters in literature; De rebus in Oriente mirabilibus; Beowulf
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Conceiving of the inconceivable; title: The Wonders of the East; title: The dittology of the tripled double men; title: Naked monsters and men in monster suits: looking at the body in the Beowulf manuscript; title: Monstrous genitals; title: Framing "the real": spatial relations on the page and in the world; title: "In the same place": the location of identity in the wonders; title: "Whate'er the fury of the flames has spar'd": vision, loss, and the Wonders of the East; title: "Be hwilcum cnottum": concluding gestures.