On Farting [electronic resource] : Language and Laughter in the Middle Ages /
Allen, V.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Plates and Figure; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: The Midden Age; THE BEGINNING; IN BETWEEN; DIE AFTERWISSENSCHAFT [END-KNOWLEDGE, PSEUDO-SCIENCE, BUTTHOLE-SCHOLARSHIP]; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Literature, Medieval.
Great Britain—History.
Europe—History—476-1492.
Ethnology.
Social history.
Medieval Literature.
History of Britain and Ireland.
History of Medieval Europe.
Social Anthropology.
Cultural Anthropology.
Social History.