On Farting: Language and Laughter in the Middle Ages by Valerie Allen

On Farting: Language and Laughter in the Middle Ages

The New Middle Ages

Valerie Allen

256 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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This book presents waste as an aesthetic category that introduces an arsy-versy world where detritus is precious. This aesthetic is applied in the second part to etymology, poking through the "paternal dungheaps" of words, and tracing their orig...

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