Gary Taylor

Gebundenes Buch

Castration

An Abbreviated History of Western Manhood

Beschreibung

Castration is a lively history of the meaning, function, and act of castration from its place in the early church to its secular reinvention in the Renaissance as a spiritualized form of masculinity in its 20th century position at the core of psychoanalysis.

Autor

Gary Taylor is Professor of English and Director of the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies at the University of Alabama. His books include CulturalSelection: Why Some Achievements Stand the Test of Timeand Others Don't and Reinventing Shakespeare: A CulturalHistory from the Restoration to the Present. He is the general editor of the Oxford Shakespeare.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 613g
• ISBN-13: 9780415927857
• ISBN-10: 0415927854
• Artikelnr.: 22250815