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Between two stools : Scatology and its representations in English literature, Chaucer to Swift
Title
Between two stools : Scatology and its representations in English literature, Chaucer to Swift / Peter J. Smith.
ISBN
9780719098796
9780719087943
9780719097614
0719098793
Publication
Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
Copyright Notice Date
©2015.
Physical Description
1 online resource (304 pages): illustrations,
Local Notes
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Notes
Originally published: 2012.
Description based on print version record.
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Summary
A serious investigation into how the scatological impulse has been represented in literature, from Chaucer to Swift, this book will be of interest to students of English literature and cultural history.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE books annual backfile collection 2021.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 13, 2023
Contents
1. Turning the other cheek: scatology and its discontents in The miller's tale and The summoner's tale
2. Ajax by any other name would smell as sweet: Shakespeare, Harington and onomastic scatology
3. M.O.A.I. 'What should that alphabetical position portend?': Shakespeare, Harington, Reynolds and the metamorphosis of scatology
4. Cavalier scatology between two stools: Rochester, Mennes, Pepys, Urquhart and the sense of dis-ordure
5. Swift's shit: poetic traditions and satiric effects
6. A palpable shit: topology, religion and science.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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