On farting: language and laughter in the Middle Ages

On farting: language and laughter in the Middle Ages

Allen, Valerie

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This book presents waste as an aesthetic category that introduces an arsy-versy world where detritus is precious. INDICE: Introduction: The Midden Age PART I: BEGINNING Old Farts For the Edification of Copious Shitters and Costive Maidens Whose Hours At Siege ShouldBe Profitably Employed 'Sometimes I sits and thinks; Sometimes I just sits' Hard Lessons Logic 101 The Music Album Musical Bum Butts and Instruments: Nature vs. Art The Musical Universe Canticus Canticorum [Song of Songs] Broken Air The Nose Knows I/Thou13. One Flesh Pneuma A Short Excursus on Wind Till Death Us Do Part Inspiration 'Oh dear, what can the matter be? Three old ladies got stuck in the lavatoryb&' 'There was an old lady who swallowed a flyb&' Fartingat the Devil Filthy Lucre22. Shitting Ducats Duck-Rabbit, Face-Bottom PART II: IN BETWEEN In the Beginning was the Word The Silver-Tongued Butt The Grammarof Farts Potent Words Legitimate Etymology Rebuilding Babel Bastard Laughter Better out Than In Spend a Penny, Save a Penny Flatus of the Voice Conclusion:die afterwissenschaft [end-knowledge, pseudo-science, butthole-scholarship] The Mystery of Roland Fartprints of Roland

  • ISBN: 978-0-230-10039-8
  • Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Encuadernacion: Rústica
  • Páginas: 256
  • Fecha Publicación: 25/05/2010
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés