The subject of excrement or faeces is normally the domain of clinicians or puerile comedy. However this collection explores the subject from an academic perspective by examining past writings from a wide variety of mostly European sources.
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"...it successfully bridges an unfortunate gap between literary studies and critical investigations in anthropology, history, sociology and psychology." -- Francois Rigolot, Meredith Howland Pyne Professor of French Literature and Chair, Renaissance Studies, Princeton University
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Jeff Persels is an Associate Professor at the Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures, University of South Carolina, USA and Russell Ganim is Department Chair of the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA.
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Literature, from Antiquity to some time in the eighteenth century, was frequently characterized by a simple juxtaposition of two Latin adjectives: utile ('useful or profitable') and dulce ('sweet or pleasant'). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
festival imagery, excretory experience, cabaret poetry, contre une vieille, festival prints, title woodcut, festival paintings, peasant festivals, joke collections, festival images, black urine, tavern maid, medieval piety Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Madame de Roncex, Early Modern, Pieter Bruegel, Sebald Beham, Great Lutheran Fool, Peasant Kermis, Thomas Murner, Gesta Romanorum, Last Supper, Council of Trent, Marguerite de Navarre, Musarum Deliciae, British Library Printed Books, Emperor Claudius, Great Fool, Lutherischen Narren, Menestrier's Histoire du Roy Louis, The Decornered Eck, Hans Sachs, Jesus Christ, Large Kermis, Martin Luther, Mikhail Bakhtin, Robert Recorde, British Museum New!
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Literature, from Antiquity to some time in the eighteenth century, was frequently characterized by a simple juxtaposition of two Latin adjectives: utile ('useful or profitable') and dulce ('sweet or pleasant'). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
festival imagery, excretory experience, cabaret poetry, contre une vieille, festival prints, title woodcut, festival paintings, peasant festivals, joke collections, festival images, black urine, tavern maid, medieval piety Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Madame de Roncex, Early Modern, Pieter Bruegel, Sebald Beham, Great Lutheran Fool, Peasant Kermis, Thomas Murner, Gesta Romanorum, Last Supper, Council of Trent, Marguerite de Navarre, Musarum Deliciae, British Library Printed Books, Emperor Claudius, Great Fool, Lutherischen Narren, Menestrier's Histoire du Roy Louis, The Decornered Eck, Hans Sachs, Jesus Christ, Large Kermis, Martin Luther, Mikhail Bakhtin, Robert Recorde, British Museum New!
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- Tamburlaine the Great (Revels Student Editions) by Christopher Marlowe on 4 pages
- Gargantua and Pantagruel (Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 24) by Francois Rabelais on 4 pages
- Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais on 4 pages
- Christopher Marlowe: The Plays and Their Sources by Mrs Vivien Thomas in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- The Castel of Helthe by Thomas Elyot on page 29, page 141, and Back Matter
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- The Culture of Cleanliness in Renaissance Italy by Douglas Biow in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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