Flesh and Word: Reading Bodies in Old Norse-Icelandic and Early Irish Literature 9783110455878, 9783110455380

Flesh and Word: Reading Bodies in Old Norse-Icelandic and Early Irish Literature 9783110455878, 9783110455380

Bodies and their role in cultural discourse have been a constant focus in the humanities and social sciences in recent y

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Born Again Bodies: Flesh and Spirit in American Christianity 9780520938113

"Fat People Don't Go to Heaven!" screamed a headline in the tabloid Globe in November 2000. The story rec

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Weaving Words and Binding Bodies: The Poetics of Human Experience in Old English Literature 9781442624894

Weaving Words and Binding Bodies presents the first comprehensive study of weaving and binding imagery through intertext

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Aesthetics and the Incarnation in Early Medieval Britain: Materiality and the Flesh of the Word 0268205159, 9780268205157

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Reading Illegitimacy in Early Iberian Literature [1st ed.] 9783030595685, 9783030595692

Reading Illegitimacy in Early Iberian Literature presents illegitimacy as a fluid, creative, and negotiable concept in e

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Reading Illegitimacy in Early Iberian Literature 3030595684, 9783030595685

Reading Illegitimacy in Early Iberian Literature presents illegitimacy as a fluid, creative, and negotiable concept in e

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Memory and Remembering in Early Irish Literature: Beyond the Backward Look 9783110799132, 9783110799095

Ireland possesses an early and exceptionally rich medieval vernacular tradition in which memory plays a key role. What a

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Memory and Remembering in Early Irish Literature: Beyond the Backward Look 9783110799132, 9783110799095

Ireland possesses an early and exceptionally rich medieval vernacular tradition in which memory plays a key role. What a

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Pagan Past and Christian Present in Early Irish Literature [Reprint ed.] 1870684109, 9781870684101

First Published 1990. Reprinted 1991. An integrated approach to medieval Ireland's vast extant literature has long

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Words that Tear the Flesh: Essays on Sarcasm in Medieval and Early Modern Literature and Cultures 3110562111, 9783110562118, 9783110563252, 9783110562255

The rhetorical trope of irony is well-trod territory, with books and essays devoted to its use by a wide range of mediev

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