On 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. 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...

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Main Author:	Allen, Valerie (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Series:	New Middle Ages.
Subjects:	Literature. Cultural Anthropology. History of Britain and Ireland. History of Medieval Europe. Medieval Literature. Social Anthropology. Social History. Ethnology. Literature, Medieval. Social history. Europe > History-476-1492. Great Britain > History. Electronic books.
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