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Playing dirty : sexuality and waste in early modern comedy /
Playing Dirty is full of dirty jokes. Arguing that the early modern excremental body is in many ways an erotic body, Will Stockton with humor and dry wit reads psychoanalytic theory through early modern comedies, claiming that it is helpful, rather than inimical, to the project of historicizing the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Playing Dirty is full of dirty jokes. Arguing that the early modern excremental body is in many ways an erotic body, Will Stockton with humor and dry wit reads psychoanalytic theory through early modern comedies, claiming that it is helpful, rather than inimical, to the project of historicizing the body. Noting that psychoanalysis has traditionally operated in a paranoid framework that relentlessly produces evidence of the same ôtruths, ö Stockton turns to a minority practice in psychoanalysisùassociated with Jean Laplancheùto develop a more ôplayfulö analytic for literary studies. This analytic. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (175 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-151) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780816676743 0816676747 9781452946702 1452946701 |