Deformed Discourse: The Function of the Monster in Mediaeval Thought and Literature by David Williams

Deformed Discourse: The Function of the Monster in Mediaeval Thought and Literature

David Williams

408 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Part I traces the poetics of teratology, the study of monsters, to Christian neoplatonic theology and philosophy, particularly Pseudo-Dionysius's negative theology and his central idea that God cannot be known except by knowing what he is not. Wil...

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