Odd Bodies and Visible Ends in Medieval Literature

by Sachi Shimomura

This study traces how medieval audiences judge bodies (as saved or damned, human or monstrous) from Doomsday visions to beauty contests. It exposes how medieval texts manipulate narrative time and its visual evidence, like marked bodies. Anxieties about time, death, and Doomsday transform bodies (magically or literally) even in romances. Employing cultural and formalist approaches, this study breaks new ground on the historical obsession about ends...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403972044
• ISBN13: 9781403972040
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 8.6"