Between Two Stools

Name: Between Two Stools
Brand: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9780719087943
Price: 756.83 RON
Availability: InStock

Scatology and its Representations in English Literature, Chaucer to Swift

Autor: Peter J. Smith

Limbă:

Legare: Copertă tare

Editura: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS

Disponibilitate: În depozitul extern

Expediem în 9-15 zile

756.83 lei

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

Informații despre carte

Autor

Peter J. Smith

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2012

Pagini

304

EAN

9780719087943

ISBN

0719087945

Enbook ID

04648740

Editura

MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS

Greutate

510

Dimensiuni

147 x 222 x 28

Descriere completă

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.

S-ar putea să te intereseze

Clienții care au cumpărat această carte au mai cumpărat și

Cele mai căutate

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Produse

Produse

Cele mai căutate

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Produse

Produse

Between Two Stools

Scatology and its Representations in English Literature, Chaucer to Swift

Informații despre carte

Descriere completă

S-ar putea să te intereseze

Clienții care au cumpărat această carte au mai cumpărat și