The Boundaries of the Human in Medieval English Literature
- Author / Editor
- Yamamoto, Dorothy.
The Boundaries of the Human in Medieval English Literature
- Published
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000.
- Physical Description
- xii, 257 pp.
- Description
- Explores relationships of the human body to human identity in Middle English literature, focusing on representations of the animal world and of "wild men" as they define the margins (and hence the center) of the human. Includes discussions of bestiaries in general, foxes, birds, heraldic imagery, hunting, wild men, were-wolves, and shape-shifters. Assesses the hunt-bedroom association of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," Melusine as the epitome of women, "Valentine and Orson," and heraldic and bestial imagery in KnT (a revised expansion of "Heraldry and the Knight's Tale," originally published in Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 93 (1992): 207-15).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Knight and His Tale.