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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780823294770
035 _a(DE-B1597)577385
035 _a(OCoLC)1240381089
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aStrouse, A. W.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aForm and Foreskin :
_bMedieval Narratives of Circumcision /
_cA. W. Strouse.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bFordham University Press,
_c[2021]
264 4 _c©2021
300 _a1 online resource (144 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tIntroduction --
_t1. The Gospel According to the Foreskin --
_t2. Saint Augustine and the Boy with the Long Foreskin --
_t3. Nicking Sir Gawain --
_t4. The Foreskin of Marriage --
_tCoda --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tNotes --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aWhy 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 The Waste Land inside of his uncut member? In this little book, A. W. Strouse excavates a poetics of the foreskin, uncovering how Patristic theologies of circumcision came to structure medieval European literary aesthetics. Following the writings of Saint Paul, “circumcision” and “uncircumcision” become key terms for theorizing language—especially the dichotomies between the mere text and its extended exegesis, between brevity and longwindedness, between wisdom and folly. Form and Foreskin looks to three works: a peculiar story by Saint Augustine about a boy with the long foreskin; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; and Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Tale. By examining literary scenes of cutting and stretching, Strouse exposes how Patristic treatments of circumcision queerly govern medieval poetics.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024)
650 0 _aCircumcision in literature.
650 0 _aLiterature, Medieval
_xHistory and criticism.
650 4 _aLiterary Studies.
650 4 _aMedieval Studies.
650 4 _aQueer Theory.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval.
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653 _a.
653 _aChaucer.
653 _aCircumcision.
653 _aSaint Augustine.
653 _aSaint Paul.
653 _aSir Gawain and the Green Knight.
653 _aforeskin.
653 _amedieval.
653 _apoetry.
653 _aqueer theory.
653 _atheology.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9780823294770?locatt=mode:legacy
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823294770
856 4 2 _3Cover
_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780823294770/original
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