Richard H. (Hrsg.) Godden

Monstrosity, Disability, and the Posthuman in the Medieval and Early Modern World

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This collection examines the intersection of the discourses of disability and monstrosity in a timely and necessary intervention in the scholarly fields of Disability Studies and Monster Studies. Analyzing Medieval and Early Modern art and literature replete with images of non-normative bodies, these essays consider the pernicious history of defining people with distinctly non-normative bodies or non-normative cognition as monsters. In many cases throughout Western history, a figure marked by what Rosemarie Garland-Thomson has termed the extraordinary body is labeled a monster. This volume explores the origins of this conflation, examines the… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Mittman, Asa Simon (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-3-030-25458-2
EAN: 9783030254582
Produktnummer: 33143522
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 7'064 KB

Über den Autor

Richard H. Godden is Assistant Professor of English at Louisiana State University, USA, where he works on the representations of disability in medieval literature and culture.Asa Simon Mittman is Professor of Art and Art History at California State University, Chico, USA, and author of several books and articles on monsters and marginality.