Mohlo by sa vám tiež páčiť

Viac informácií o knihe Between Two Stools

• Parametre knihy
• Anotácia kniha
• Obľúbené z iného súdka

Nákupom získate 330 bodov

Anotácia knihy

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.

Parametre knihy

Zaradenie knihy Knihy po anglicky Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Celý názov: Between Two Stools
• Podnázov: Scatology and its Representations in English Literature, Chaucer to Swift
• Autor: Peter J. Smith
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Väzba: Pevná
• Počet strán: 304
• EAN: 9780719087943
• ISBN: 0719087945
• ID: 04648740
• Nakladateľ: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
• Hmotnosť: 510 g
• Rozmery: 222 × 147 × 28 mm
• Dátum vydania: 01. August 2012

Obľúbené z iného súdka

---

---

---