• Inconceivable Beasts: The ‘Wonders of the East’ in the Beowulf Manuscript

    Author(s):
    Susan M. Kim, Asa Simon Mittman (see profile)
    Date:
    2013
    Group(s):
    Medieval Art, Monsters and Monstrosity
    Subject(s):
    Monsters, English language--Old English, English literature--Old English
    Item Type:
    Book
    Tag(s):
    Monstrosity, Old English, Old English literature
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/h009-mb87
    Abstract:
    Bound with Beowulf, the Old English Wonders of the East, a catalogue of marvelous beings, describes the very creatures it depicts as ungefrægelicu (unheard of, inconceivable). Insistently, these representations, both visual and textual, provoke questions about the nature and possibility of representation itself. In doing so, they also destabilize the notion of scholarship as being able to provide final, concrete meanings, even as they suggest the possibility for other ways of approaching meanings, including the question of what it meant—and means—to be a monster, and thus to be human. Containing the first color facsimile of the Wonders, transcription, translation and extensive commentary, this volume should be of interest to students and scholars of Old English literature, Anglo-Saxon art, and monster studies.
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    Publisher:
    Arizona Center For Medieval And Renaissance Studies
    Pub. Date:
    2013
    Volume:
    433
    ISBN:
    086698481X
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    4 years ago
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives
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