Between Two Stools

Name: Between Two Stools
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SKU: 9780719087943
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Scatology and its Representations in English Literature, Chaucer to Swift

Autor: Peter J. Smith

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Oprawa: Twarda

Wydawca: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Between two stools investigates the representation of scatology - humorous, carnivalesque, satirical...

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Autor

Peter J. Smith

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

2012

strony

304

EAN

9780719087943

ISBN

0719087945

Enbook ID

04648740

Wydawca

MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS

Waga

510

Wymiary

147 x 222 x 28

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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 and civilised artefacts and scatological humour frequently co-exist in the works under discussion, evidence of an earlier culture's aptitude (now lost) to occupy a position between two stools. Of interest to cultural and literary historians, this ground-breaking study testifies to the arrival of scatology as an academic subject, at the same time recognising that it remains if not outside, then at least at the margins of conventional scholarship.

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