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Fecal Matters in Early Modern Literature and Art: Studies in Scatology

Fecal Matters in Early Modern Literature and Art: Studies in Scatology

Persels, Jeff
Ganim, Russell

Hardcover

Series: Studies in European Cultural Transition, Book 21

Literary CriticismGeneral Art

ISBN10: 0754641163
ISBN13: 9780754641162
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 26 2004
Pages: 216
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Feces, urine, flatus, phlegm, vomitus - unlike ourselves, our most educated forebears did not disdain these functions, and, further, they employed scatological references in all manner of works. This collection of essays was provoked by what its editors considered to be a curious lacuna: the relative academic neglect of the copious and ubiquitous scatological rhetoric of Early Modern Europe, here broadly defined as the representation of the process and product of elimination of the body's waste products. The contributors to this volume examine the many forms and functions of scatology as literary and artistic trope, and reconsider this last taboo in the context of Early Modern European expression. They address unflinchingly both the objective reality of the scatological as part and parcel of material culture - inescapably a much larger part, a much heavier parcel then than now - and the subjective experience of that reality among contemporaries.

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