On Farting: Language and Laughter in the Middle AgesThis 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. |
Contents
The Midden Age | 1 |
THE BEGINNING | 9 |
IN BETWEEN | 115 |
DIE AFTERWISSENSCHAFT ENDKNOWLEDGE PSEUDOSCIENCE BUTTHOLESCHOLARSHIP | 163 |
Notes | 182 |
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Alchemy anagnoresis ancient animal Aristotle Augustine belch bodily body bowels breath butt Cambridge century Chaucer’s Chaucer’s Summoner’s Tale Christian connection crepitus Dante Dante’s demons denotes derives devil early modern edited EETS England etymology excrement fart Farter flatus Freud friar Geber God’s gold grammar Greek Guibert of Nogent Harvard University Harvard University Press hell Hemingston Hippocrates Holy human humors inhalation instrument John joke Joubert kind king king’s land language Lasma late medieval Latin laughing laughter Liber feodorum linguistic literally London lord means medieval etymology metonomy Middle Ages Middle English mouth nature noise Norton nose Oedipus one’s origin Oxford University Press peasant physical Plato play pneuma Priscian privy Rabelais refers represents Roland Satan’s semantic sense serjeanty shit smell soul sound laws speaks spirit stink story tenure thing tion trans translation Treatise Valerie Allen verb vols vowel wind woman women word