Screen LibraryExcrement in the late middle ages Sacred filth and chaucer's fecopoetics /
This interdisciplinary book intergrates the historical practices regarding material excrement and its symbolic representation, concluding that excrement is a moral and ethical category deserving scrutiny.
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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/10.1057/9780230615021 |
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This interdisciplinary book intergrates the historical practices regarding material excrement and its symbolic representation, concluding that excrement is a moral and ethical category deserving scrutiny. "If you thought there was something crappy about the Middle Ages, you'd be right. This book rubs our nose in the excremental poetries and culture of the High and Late Middle Ages, reminding us that waste is everywhere the foundation of civilization. In this fine and comprehensive study of that which we mark off as different from us, excrement becomes the necessary stuff for understanding identity, desire, and history. In the end, we realize that a critique of shit is a critique of culture." - Michael Uebel, author of Ecstatic Transformation: On the Uses of Alterity in the Middle Ages and co- |
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Ebook. Originally published in: 2008. |
| Carrier Form: | 288 p. |
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9781403984883 9780230615021 : 0230615023 : |
| CLC: | I561.063 |
| Contents: | The Medieval Body: Disciplining Material and Symbolic Excrement * The Rhizomatic Body * Moral Filth and The Sinning Body: Hell, Purgatory, and Resurrection * Gendered Filth * Chaucerian Fecopoetics * Urban Excrement in The Canterbury Tales * Sacred Filth: Relics, Ritual, and Remembering in The Prioress's Tale * The Excremental Human God and Redemptive Filth: The Pardoner's Tale * Rhizomatic Pilgrimage and Alchemical Poetry * Chaucerian Fecology and Wasteways: The Nun's Priest's Tale * Looking Behind, Looking Ahead * Waste Studies: A Brief Introduction * Bottoms Up! A Manifesto for Waste Stud |