03363nam 2200745 a 450 991046007310332120200520144314.01-4529-4670-10-8166-7674-7(CKB)2670000000078072(EBL)678665(OCoLC)712015737(SSID)ssj0000472130(PQKBManifestationID)11311100(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000472130(PQKBWorkID)10433798(PQKB)10106041(StDuBDS)EDZ0001177480(MiAaPQ)EBC678665(MdBmJHUP)muse29881(Au-PeEL)EBL678665(CaPaEBR)ebr10461008(CaONFJC)MIL525615(EXLCZ)99267000000007807220100806d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPlaying dirty[electronic resource] sexuality and waste in early modern comedy /Will StocktonMinneapolis [Minn.] University of Minnesota Press20111 online resource (204 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-6607-5 0-8166-7459-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 analyticEnglish literatureEarly modern, 1500-1700History and criticismEnglish drama (Comedy)History and criticismSex in literatureHuman body in literatureSodomy in literatureFeces in literatureAnus (Psychology)Psychoanalysis and literatureElectronic books.English literatureHistory 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.822/.0523093538Stockton Will802605MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910460073103321Playing dirty2007211UNINA