Form and Foreskin – Medieval Narratives of Circumcision Strouse Hardback
Fordham University Press
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\u2014as an early glossator figures her\u2014a 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\u2014especially 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\n\nForm and Foreskin\nMedieval Narratives of Circumcision\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked service;
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