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Edited by Jeff Persels & Russ Ganim
Feces, urine, flatus, phlegm, vomitus – unlike ourselves, our most educated forebears did not disdain these functions, and, further, they employed scatological references in all manner of works. This collection of essays was provoked by what its editors considered to be a curious lacuna: the relative academic neglect of the copious and ubiquitous scatological rhetoric of Early Modern Europe, here broadly defined as the representation of the process and product of elimination of the body's waste products.
The contributors to this volume examine the many forms and functions of scatology as literary and artistic trope, and reconsider this last taboo in the context of Early Modern European expression. They address unflinchingly both the objective reality of the scatological as part and parcel of material culture – inescapably a much larger part, a much heavier parcel then than now – and the subjective experience of that reality among contemporaries.
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News
- Dayana Soto y Caballero de Galicia presented a paper entitled "Imaginación, narración y desestabilización en La de Bringas" at the Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literatures in Lawrence, KS on November 7th, 2009.
- Congralulations goes out to Emeritus Professor Adelaida Martinez for receiving the 2009 "Premio Victoria Urbano a la Trayectoria Académica" bestowed upon her by the Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica (AILCFH) for her efforts to promote the literature of Hispanic women.
