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Record Nr.

UNINA9910466008603321

Titolo

Fecal matters in early modern literature and art : studies in scatology / / edited by Jeff Persels, Russell Ganim ; general editors, Martin Stannard and Greg Walker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-25536-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (215 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Studies in European cultural transition ; ; Volume 21

Altri autori (Persone)

GanimRussell

PerselsJeff

Disciplina

700/.453

Soggetti

Scatology in literature

Scatology in art

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2004 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. The 'honorable art of farting' in continental Renaissance literature / Barbara C. Bowen -- 2. 'The wife multiplies the secret' (AaTh 1381D) : some fortunes of an exemplary tale / Geoffrey R. Hope -- 3. Dr. Rabelais and the medicine of scatology / David LaGuardia -- 4. 'The mass and the fart are sisters' : scatology and Calvinist rhetoric against the mass, 1560-1563 / Jeff Persels -- 5. Community, commodities, and commodes in the French nouvelle / Emily E. Thompson -- 6. Pissing glass and the body crass: adaptations of the scatological in Theophile / Russell Ganim -- 7. Scatology as political protest: a 'scandalous' medal of Louis XIV / Jeanne Morgan Zarucchi -- 8. Foolectomies, fool enemas, and the Renaissance Anatomy of folly / Glenn Ehrstine -- 9. Holy and unholy shit : the pragmatic context of scatological curses in early German Reformation satire / Josef Schmidt, with Mary Simon -- 10. Expelling from top and bottom : the changing role of scatology in images of peasant festivals from Albrecht Durer to Pieter Bruegel / Alison G. Stewart -- 11. Tamburlaine's Urine / Joseph Tate -- 12. 'The wronged breeches' : cavalier scatology / Peter J. Smith.