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Form and Foreskin - Medieval Narratives of Circumcision (Paperback)
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Form and Foreskin - Medieval Narratives of Circumcision (Paperback)
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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 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.
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