Ebook: On Farting: Language and Laughter in the Middle Ages
Author: Valerie Allen (auth.)
- Tags: Medieval Literature, History of Britain and Ireland, History of Medieval Europe, Social Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Social History
- Series: The New Middle Ages
- Year: 2007
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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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.
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