Form and Foreskin : Medieval Narratives of Circumcision /

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Why did Saint Augustine ask God to "circumcise [his] lips"? Why does Sir Gawain cut off the Green Knight's head on the Feast of the Circumcision? Is Chaucer's Wife of Bath actually-as an early glossator figures her-a foreskin? And why did Ezra Pound claim that he had incubated Th...

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Autor principal: Strouse, A. W. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2021]
Temas:
Circumcision in literature.
Literature, Medieval > History and criticism.
Literary Studies.
Medieval Studies.
Queer Theory.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval.
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Chaucer.
Circumcision.
Saint Augustine.
Saint Paul.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
foreskin.
medieval.
poetry.
queer theory.
theology.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Gospel According to the Foreskin
  • 2. Saint Augustine and the Boy with the Long Foreskin
  • 3. Nicking Sir Gawain
  • 4. The Foreskin of Marriage
  • Coda
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index

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