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Inconceivable beasts : the Wonders of the East in the Beowulf manuscript / Asa Simon Mittman, Department of Art and Art History, California State University, Chico and Susan M. Kim, Department of English, Illinois State University.

Mittman, Asa Simon, 1976- author.; Kim, Susan M.
2013
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Title
Inconceivable beasts : the Wonders of the East in the Beowulf manuscript / Asa Simon Mittman, Department of Art and Art History, California State University, Chico and Susan M. Kim, Department of English, Illinois State University.
Published
Tempe, Arizona : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2013.
Description
xii, 273 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Associated name
Mittman, Asa Simon, 1976- author.
Kim, Susan M.
Series statement
Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies ; Volume 433
Bibliography, etc.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-265) and index.
Contents
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.
Series
Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (Series) ; v. 433.

Call number
PA8310.D39 M58 2013
Folger accession
222911

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