Of Giants : Sex, Monsters, and the Middle Ages
- Author / Editor
- Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome.
Of Giants : Sex, Monsters, and the Middle Ages
- Published
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
- Physical Description
- xx, 235 pp.
- Series
- Medieval Cultures, no. 17
- Description
- Argues that giants can represent the lost prehistory of the masculine body and therefore figure its present and dangerous instability. Six chapters and an introduction focus on the English Middle Ages. Chapter 4 (pp. 96-118) discusses Chaucer's Th, arguing that by translating the familiar battle against the giant from romance into comedy, Th diminishes the sexual threat that the giant encodes. Fragment 7 of CT is organized by concern with the instability of male sexuality.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Tale of Sir Thopas.