Between Animals and Angels: Rethinking Extracategorical Bodies in Medieval Literature

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2012

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Henson, Chelsea

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University of Oregon

Abstract

Medieval bodies often push against easy categorization. Hybrids, saints, giants, and transformative bodies are represented in literature as falling between or occupying multiple taxonomic hierarchical positions of divine, human, or animal.

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Bodies, Deleuze and Guattari, Judith Butler, literature of the body, Medieval, Rhizome

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