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Between Two Stools: Scatology and Its Representations in English Literature, Chaucer to Swift

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Between Two Stools: Scatology and Its Representations in English Literature, Chaucer to Swift - Smith, Peter J
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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 ...

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Between Two Stools: Scatology and Its Representations in English Literature, Chaucer to Swift 2015, Manchester University Press, Manchester

ISBN-13: 9780719097614

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Between Two Stools: Scatology and its Representations in English Literature, Chaucer to Swift 2012, Manchester University Press, Manchester

ISBN-13: 9780719087943

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