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Holy shit : a brief history of swearing /
"Holy Sh*t tells the story of two kinds of swearing--obscenities and oaths--from ancient Rome and the Bible to today. With humor and insight, Melissa Mohr takes readers on a journey to discover how "swearing" has come to include both testifying with your hand on the Bible and calling...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- To speak with Roman plainness : ancient Rome
- On Earth as it is in Heaven : the Bible
- Swearing God to pieces : the Middle Ages
- The rise of obscenity : the Renaissance
- The Age of Euphemism : the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
- "Fuck 'em all" : swearing in the twentieth century and beyond.