《On Farting》是2000年Palgrave Macmillan出版的圖書，作者是Allen Valerie。
基本介紹
- 書名：On Farting
- 作者：Allen Valerie
- 出版社：Palgrave Macmillan
- 出版時間：2000年9月
- 定價：107.35 美元
- 裝幀：HRD
- ISBN：9780312234935
目錄,作者簡介,媒體推薦,
目錄
Introduction: The Midden Age Part I: Beginning Old Farts For the Edification of Copious Shitters and Costive Maidens Whose Hours At Siege Should Be Profitably Employed 'Sometimes I sits and thinks; Sometimes I just sits' Hard Lessons Logic 101 The Music Album Musical Bum Butts and Instruments: Nature vs. Art The Musical Universe Canticus Canticorum [Song of Songs] Broken Air The Nose Knows I/Thou13. One Flesh Pneuma A Short Excursus on Wind Till Death Us Do Part Inspiration 'Oh dear, what can the matter be? Three old ladies got stuck in the lavatory' 'There was an old lady who swallowed a fly' Farting at the Devil Filthy Lucre22. Shitting Ducats Duck-Rabbit, Face-Bottom Part II: In Between In the Beginning was the Word The Silver-Tongued Butt The Grammar of Farts Potent Words Legitimate Etymology Rebuilding Babel Bastard Laughter Better out Than In Spend a Penny, Save a Penny Flatus of the Voice Conclusion: die afterwissenschaft [end-knowledge, pseudo-science, butthole-scholarship] The Mystery of Roland Fartprints of Roland
作者簡介
Valerie Allen works in New York, teaching literature at John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York. She was educated at Trinity College Dublin, and taught in Scotland and Florida before moving to New York. Her publications include an edited anthology of essays on Chaucer, a short history of medieval English literature, and articles on medieval culture and on contemporary continental philosophy.
媒體推薦
'Allen has written the secret history of waste from the Ancient to the early modern world, and - dare I say it? - the hidden history of humankind's relation to the anus. On Farting, in the line of Norbert Elias's Civilizing Process or Erik Erikson's Young Man Luther, begins small and spreads like wind to almost every area of personal, social, and even spiritual life in what is a truly original and significant work of cultural analysis. This is a book with a huge sweep - from the folklore of the fart, to popular and canonical literary works, to the upper reaches of Aristotle and Dante. Allen writes with such a combination of wit, imagination, and erudition that scholars will wonder, 'Why didn't I think of that?' and the more general reader will be drawn towards a vision of the past that is lively, courageous, and profound.' - R. Howard Bloch, Sterling Professor of French, Yale University
