On farting : language and laughter in the Middle Ages / Valerie Allen
- 作者： Allen, Valerie 1941-
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- 出版： New York : Palgrave Macmillan c2007
- 叢書名： The new Middle Ages
- 主題： Flatulence--Social aspects , Flatulence--History , Flatulence in literature
- 版本：1st ed.
- ISBN： 9780230109063 、 0230109063
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- 書目註：This book presents waste as an aesthetic category that introduces anarsy-versy world where detritus is precious. This aesthetic is appliedin 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 performedannually 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 placinglaughter at the heart of knowing Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-232) and index
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- 系統號： 005171633 | 機讀編目格式
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Introduction: The Midden Age -- The Beginning -- Old Farts -- For the Edification of Copious Shitters and Costive Maidens Whose Hours At Siege Should Be Profitably Employed -- "Sometimes I sitsand thinks; Sometimes I just sits" -- Hard Lessons -- Logic 101 -- The Music Album Musical Bum -- Butts and Instruments: Nature versus Art -- The Musical Universe -- Canticus Canticorum [Song of Songs] -- Broken Air -- The Nose Knows -- I/Thou -- One Flesh -- Pneuma -- A Short Excursus on Wind -- Till Death Us Do Part -- Inspiration -- Stuck in the Lavatory -- "There was an old lady who swallowedafly ..." -- Farting at the Devil -- Filthy Lucre --Shitting Ducats -- Duck-Rabbit, Face-Bottom --InBetween --In the Beginning was the Word -- The Silver-Tongued Butt -- The Grammar of Farts -- Potent Words -- Legitimate Etymology -- Rebuilding Babel -- Bastard Laughter -- Better out Than In -- Spend a Penny, Save a Penny -- Flatus of the Voice -- die afterwissenschaft [end-knowledge, pseudo-science, butthole-scholarship] -- The Mystery of Roland -- Fartprintsof Roland