Screen LibraryOn farting Language and laughter in the Middle Ages /
This book presents waste as an aesthetic category that introduces an arsy-versy world where detritus is precious.
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New Middle Ages |
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230109063 |
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This book presents waste as an aesthetic category that introduces an arsy-versy world where detritus is precious. "Fascinating and witty...the strength of On Farting is its playful and evocative treatment of a number of scatological authors and episodes" - Times Higher Education Supplement "Funny and intellectually rewarding." - English Studies "If a book on farting may be called so, it is elegant and erudite." - Marginalia "Allen has written the secret history of waste from the Ancient to the early modern world, and - dare I say it? - the hidden history of humankind's relation to the anus. On Farting, in the line of Norbert Elias's Civilizing Process or Erik Erikson's Young Man Luther, begins small and |
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Electronic book text. Originally published in: 2007. |
| Carrier Form: | 256 p. |
| Audience: | Undergraduate |
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9780312234935 9780230109063 : 0230109063 : |
| CLC: | I109.3 |
| Contents: | Introduction: The Midden Age * Part I: Beginning * Old Farts * For the Edification of Copious Shitters and Costive Maidens Whose Hours At Siege Should Be Profitably Employed * A"Sometimes I sits and thinks-- Sometimes I just sitsA" * Hard Lessons * Logic 101* The Music Album Musical Bum * Butts and Instruments: Nature vs. Art * The Musical Universe * Canticus Canticorum [Song of Songs] * Broken Air * The Nose Knows * I/Thou13. One Flesh * Pneuma * A Short Excursus on Wind * Till Death Us Do Part * Inspiration * A"Oh dear, what can the matter be? Three old ladies got stuck in the lavatoryA... |