On Farting: Language and Laughter in the Middle Ages

(Part of the The New Middle Ages Series)

By Valerie Allen

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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.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0230100392

ISBN13:9780230100398

Release Date:May 2010

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:239 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.5" x 8.6"

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