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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460073103321

Autore

Stockton Will

Titolo

Playing dirty [[electronic resource] ] : sexuality and waste in early modern comedy / / Will Stockton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis [Minn.], : University of Minnesota Press, 2011

ISBN

1-4529-4670-1

0-8166-7674-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (204 p.)

Disciplina

822/.0523093538

Soggetti

English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism

English drama (Comedy) - History and criticism

Sex in literature

Human body in literature

Sodomy in literature

Feces in literature

Anus (Psychology)

Psychoanalysis and literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- The wandering anus: Ben Jonson, John Harington, and humanist homopoetics -- Shakespeare's ass: The merry wives of Windsor and the butt of the joke -- Happy endings: healing sick desires in All's well that ends well -- Happy endings II: The unfortunate traveller, the "frenzy of the visible," and the comedy of anti-semitism -- The pardoner's dirty breeches: cynicism and kynicism in The Canterbury tales.

Sommario/riassunto

Playing Dirty is full of dirty jokes. Arguing that the early modern excremental body is in many ways an erotic body, Will Stocktonùwith humor and dry witùreads psychoanalytic theory through early modern comedies, claiming that it is helpful, rather than inimical, to the project of historicizing the body.Noting that psychoanalysis has traditionally operated in a paranoid framework that relentlessly produces evidence



of the same ôtruths,ö Stockton turns to a minority practice in psychoanalysisùassociated with Jean Laplancheùto develop a more ôplayfulö analytic for literary studies. This analytic