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This monograph focuses on the creation of meaning through representations of dismemberment in medieval and early modern English literature and culture.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Attending to Bodies
1. The Symbolic Body and the Performance of Dismemberment
2. Gendered Dismemberments
3. Animals of Dismemberment
4. The Anguish of the Dismemberer: Executioners and Others
5: Coda: After Dismemberment
Bibliography
Index

Dismemberment in the Medieval and Early Modern

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      Publisher: De Gruyter
      Publication Date: 23/11/2020
      ISBN13: 9781501517860, 978-1501517860
      ISBN10: 1501517864

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This monograph focuses on the creation of meaning through representations of dismemberment in medieval and early modern English literature and culture.

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgements
      Introduction: Attending to Bodies
      1. The Symbolic Body and the Performance of Dismemberment
      2. Gendered Dismemberments
      3. Animals of Dismemberment
      4. The Anguish of the Dismemberer: Executioners and Others
      5: Coda: After Dismemberment
      Bibliography
      Index

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