Excrement in the late middle ages: sacred filth and Chaucer's fecopoetics
Morrison, Susan Signe
This interdisciplinary book intergrates the historical practices regarding material excrement and its symbolic representation, concluding that excrement isa moral and ethical category deserving scrutiny. ÍNDICE: - The Medieval Body: Disciplining Material and Symbolic Excrement - The Rhizomatic Body - Moral Filth and The Sinning Body: Hell, Purgatory, andResurrection - Gendered Filth - Chaucerian Fecopoetics - Urban Excrement in The Canterbury Tales - Sacred Filth: Relics, Ritual, and Remembering in The Prioress's Tale - The Excremental Human God and Redemptive Filth: The Pardonerb sTale - Rhizomatic Pilgrimage and Alchemical Poetry - Chaucerian Fecology and Wasteways: The Nun's Priest's Tale - Looking Behind, Looking Ahead - Waste Studies: A Brief Introduction - Bottoms Up! A Manifesto for Waste Studies -
- ISBN: 978-1-4039-8488-3
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha Publicación: 14/11/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés