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Between Two Stools : Scatology and Its Representations in English Literature, Chaucer to Swift.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (305 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780719098796
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Between Two StoolsDDC classification:
  • 820.93561
LOC classification:
  • NX650.S28 .S658 2012
Online resources:
Contents:
Between two stools: Scatology and its representations in English literature, Chaucer to Swift -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Turning the other cheek: scatology and its discontents in The Miller's Tale and The Summoner's Tale -- 2. Ajax by any other name would smell as sweet: Shakespeare, Harington and onomastic scatology -- 3. M.O.A.I. 'What should that alphabetical position portend?': Shakespeare, Harington, Reynolds and the metamorphosis of scatology -- 4. Cavalier scatology between two stools: Rochester, Mennes, Pepys, Urquhart and the sense of dis-ordure -- 5. Swift's shit: poetic traditions and satiric effects -- 6. A palpable shit: topology, religion and science -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: An engaging and lively tour through the scatological, the flatulent and the cloacal in English literature over four centuries.
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Between two stools: Scatology and its representations in English literature, Chaucer to Swift -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Turning the other cheek: scatology and its discontents in The Miller's Tale and The Summoner's Tale -- 2. Ajax by any other name would smell as sweet: Shakespeare, Harington and onomastic scatology -- 3. M.O.A.I. 'What should that alphabetical position portend?': Shakespeare, Harington, Reynolds and the metamorphosis of scatology -- 4. Cavalier scatology between two stools: Rochester, Mennes, Pepys, Urquhart and the sense of dis-ordure -- 5. Swift's shit: poetic traditions and satiric effects -- 6. A palpable shit: topology, religion and science -- Bibliography -- Index.

An engaging and lively tour through the scatological, the flatulent and the cloacal in English literature over four centuries.

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