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

• Autore: Stockton Will
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis [Minn.], : University of Minnesota Press, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (204 p.)
• Disciplina: 822/.0523093538
• Soggetto topico: 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
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Playing dirty
• ISBN: 1-4529-4670-1; 0-8166-7674-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910789868103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II