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

Palgrave MacMillan

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UPC:
9780230100398
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
2010-05-13
Release Date:
2010-04-15
Author:
V. Allen
Language:
english
Edition:
2007
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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.