{"product_id":"form-and-foreskin-medieval-narratives-of-circumcision-hardback-9780823294749","title":"Form and Foreskin; Medieval Narratives of Circumcision (Hardback) 9780823294749","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eForm and Foreskin\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMedieval Narratives of Circumcision\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eA. W. Strouse (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823294749\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 13 April 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e144 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.426 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWhy 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eForm and Foreskin \u003c\/i\u003elooks to three works: a peculiar story by Saint Augustine about a boy with the long foreskin; \u003ci\u003eSir Gawain and the Green Knight\u003c\/i\u003e; and Chaucer's \u003ci\u003eWife of Bath's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e. By examining literary scenes of cutting and stretching, Strouse exposes how Patristic treatments of circumcision queerly govern medieval poetics.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e   1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1. \u003c\/b\u003eThe Gospel According to the Foreskin   11\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2. \u003c\/b\u003eSaint Augustine and the Boy with the Long Foreskin   32\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3.\u003c\/b\u003e Nicking Sir Gawain   50\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4.\u003c\/b\u003e The Foreskin of Marriage   82\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eCoda\u003c\/b\u003e   103\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e   109\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e   111\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e   151\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580463608088,"sku":"9780823294749","price":82.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/form-and-foreskin-medieval-narratives-of-circumcision-hardback-9780823294749","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}