On Farting: Language and Laughter in the Middle Ages (The New Middle Ages)

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2010
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This book presents waste as an aesthetic category that introduces an arsy-versy world where detritus is precious. This aesthetic is applied in the second part to etymology, poking through the 'paternal dungheaps' of words, and tracing their origins not to Eden but to Babel, puns, and word play.

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This book presents waste as an aesthetic category that introduces an arsy-versy world where detritus is precious. This aesthetic is applied in the second part to etymology, poking through the 'paternal dungheaps' of words, and tracing their origins not to Eden but to Babel, puns, and word play.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 262
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 25 Jun 2010
ISBN 10: 0230100392
ISBN 13: 9780230100398