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Riddles and Wonders: Defining Humanity in Anglo-Saxon England

Riddles and Wonders: Defining Humanity in Anglo-Saxon England

Bria, Jasmine
Álvarez-Faedo, María José
Penas-Ibáñez, Beatriz

Paperback

Series: Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Co, Book 31

Literary CriticismGeneral EducationTeaching Instruction

ISBN10: 3034345046
ISBN13: 9783034345040
Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P
Published: Oct 30 2023
Pages: 196
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.45 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

Throughout 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 Exeter Book Riddles and of monstrous creatures in the Wonders of the East 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.

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