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Excrement in the late Middle Ages [electronic resource] : sacred filth and Chaucer's fecopoetics / Susan Signe Morrison.

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This interdisciplinary book integrates the historical practices regarding material excrement and its symbolic representation, with special focus on fecopoetics and Chaucer's literary agenda. Filth in all its manifestations - material (including privies, dung on fields, and as alchemical ingredi...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Morrison, Susan Signe, 1959- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, ©2008.
Series:New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
Subjects:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400. > Canterbury tales.
Feces in literature.
Literature, Medieval > History and criticism.
Feces > Symbolic aspects.
Symbolism in literature.
Human body in literature.
Sanitation in literature.
Refuse and refuse disposal in literature.
Canterbury tales (Chaucer, Geoffrey)
Literature, Medieval.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The medieval body : disciplining material and symbolic excrement
  • The rhizomatic body
  • Moral filth and the sinning body : hell purgatory, resurrection
  • 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 pardoner's tale
  • The rhizomatic pilgrim body and alchemical poetry
  • Chaucerian fecology and wasteways : The nun's priest's tale
  • Looking behind, looking ahead
  • Looking behind
  • Waste studies : a brief introduction
  • Bottoms up! A manifesto for waste studies.

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