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Between two stools: Scatology and its representations in English literature, Chaucer to Swift
Peter J. Smith
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Description for Between two stools: Scatology and its representations in English literature, Chaucer to Swift
Paperback. An engaging and lively tour through the scatological, the flatulent and the cloacal in English literature over four centuries. Num Pages: 304 pages, 3 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSBD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 218 x 141 x 24. Weight in Grams: 398.
Now available in paperback, Between two stools investigates the representation of scatology - humorous, carnivalesque, satirical, damning and otherwise - in English literature from the middle ages to the eighteenth century. Smith contends that the 'two stools' stand for two broadly distinctive attitudes towards scatology. The first is a carnivalesque, merry, even hearty disposition, typified by the writings of Chaucer and Shakespeare. The second is self-disgust, an attitude characterised by withering misanthropy and hypochondria. Smith demonstrates how the combination of high and low cultures manifests the capacity to run canonical and carnivalesque together so that sanctioned ... Read more
Now available in paperback, Between two stools investigates the representation of scatology - humorous, carnivalesque, satirical, damning and otherwise - in English literature from the middle ages to the eighteenth century. Smith contends that the 'two stools' stand for two broadly distinctive attitudes towards scatology. The first is a carnivalesque, merry, even hearty disposition, typified by the writings of Chaucer and Shakespeare. The second is self-disgust, an attitude characterised by withering misanthropy and hypochondria. Smith demonstrates how the combination of high and low cultures manifests the capacity to run canonical and carnivalesque together so that sanctioned ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719097614
SKU
V9780719097614
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About Peter J. Smith
Peter J. Smith is Reader in Renaissance Literature, Nottingham Trent University -- .
Reviews for Between two stools: Scatology and its representations in English literature, Chaucer to Swift
Between Two Stools is a pleasure to read and makes significant contributions to the field of shiterature . It is, in sum, good shit! David Palumbo, THE, 4 October 2012
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