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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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| November 6th-13th Czech Week |
| November 10th & 12th Russian Club Movies 6:00pm in 206 CBA |
| Nov 13th is the last day for students to withdrawal from a class. |
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News
- 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.
- During November 10-14 Dr. José Angel Vargas Vargas, Director of the University of Costa Rica (UCR)– Western Campus, and Dr. Luz Marina Vásquez, Director of the Office of International Relations at UCR–Western campus, will visit UNL. Dr. Vargas Vargas will give a lecture on Nov 11th and Dr. Vásquez will give a lecturer on Nov 12th.
