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 incubate...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Strouse, A. W. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2021.
Edición:First edition.
Temas:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400. > Wife of Bath's tale.
Augustine, > of Hippo, Saint, > 354-430. > De Genesi ad litteram.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Wife of Bath's tale (Chaucer, Geoffrey)
De Genesi ad litteram (Augustine, of Hippo, Saint)
Gawain and the Grene Knight.
Circumcision in literature.
Literature, Medieval > History and criticism.
Littérature médiévale > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Medieval.
Literature, Medieval.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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