{"product_id":"riddles-and-wonders-defining-humanity-in-anglo-saxon-england-9783034345040","title":"Riddles and Wonders: Defining Humanity in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout the history of human civilization, the definition of the animal and its relationship to humans have been contentious issues. This book investigates the notion of what constituted an animal in Early Medieval English culture as well as how the animal-human interaction is portrayed in the Anglo-Saxon literary corpus. In this regard, the animal’s portrayals in the \u003ci\u003eExeter Book Riddles\u003c\/i\u003e and of monstrous creatures in the \u003ci\u003eWonders of the East\u003c\/i\u003e provided a fertile field for research because these texts, rarely connected to allegorical readings and offering viewpoints that might be seen as complementary, deal with fundamental issues regarding what it meant to be human for Early Medieval English society.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis study offers fresh insights into the characters and themes explored in the \u003ci\u003eExeter Book\u003c\/i\u003e collection and in the \u003ci\u003eWonders of the East\u003c\/i\u003e, looking for the spaces of Anglo-Saxon thought in which animality and humanity appear to meet. The author not only discovers the peculiar features in the definition of humanity with regard to animal and non-human figures, but is able to demonstrate that a strong anthropocentric vocation can coexist with an outlook that recognizes a close affinity among different species.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTable of Contents – Acknowledgments – Preface – Introduction - Chapter One - The \u003ci\u003eExeter Book\u003c\/i\u003e collection and the Riddle Tradition - Chapter Two - Prosopopoeia, Anthropomorphism and Empathy - Chapter Three - Riddles and Metamorphosis - Chapter Four - \u003ci\u003eWonders of the East\u003c\/i\u003e: men, animals and in-between - Chapter Five - Uncertain Humanity Denied Humanity - Chapter Six - Alien and Familiar – Conclusions - References\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51043680977239,"sku":"9783034345040","price":26.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783034345040.jpg?v=1750959109","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/riddles-and-wonders-defining-humanity-in-anglo-saxon-england-9783034345040","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}