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On Farting: Language and Laughter in the Middle Ages

By Valerie Allen (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Year
2007
ISBN
978-0-230-10039-8, 978-0-230-10906-3
DOI
10.1057/9780230109063
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2107458 bytes)
Series
The New Middle Ages
Edition
1
Pages
XIII, 239\258
Time added
2016-03-14 21:35:01
Medieval Literature; History of Britain and Irelan

Description

This book presents waste as an aesthetic category that introduces an arsy-versy world where detritus is precious. This aesthetic is applied in the second part to etymology, poking through the 'paternal dungheaps' of words, and tracing their origins not to Eden but to Babel, puns, and word play.

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