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基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2006. In the Middle Ages, farting was seen as the release of either harmful 'air' that was contaminating the body, or the person's true self. The study of the fart participates in the widespread and productive contemporary study of the body, its practices and its hermeneutics.
Full Description
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 origins not to Eden but to Babel, puns, and word play.
Contents
IntroductionEdification 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