On Farting: Language and Laughter in the Middle Ages - Softcover

Buch 24 von 227: The New Middle Ages

Allen, Valerie

 
9780230100398: On Farting: Language and Laughter in the Middle Ages

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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. Finally, in the case of Roland the Farter, who performed annually a jump, whistle, and fart before the king of England, we encounter the resistance of the past to historical rationalization. Roland moons at us across the centuries, deflating our attempts to become one flesh with the past, and placing laughter at the heart of knowing.

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VALERIE ALLEN is Associate Professor of Literature at John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York, USA.

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ISBN 10:  0312234937 ISBN 13:  9780312234935
Verlag: AIAA, 2000
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