{"product_id":"form-and-foreskin-medieval-narratives-of-circumcision-paperback","title":"Form and Foreskin: Medieval Narratives of Circumcision - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eA. W. Strouse\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA.W. Strouse \u003c\/b\u003eis a poet and an adjunct professor of medieval literature, as well as the author of many scholarly articles, poems, and art projects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.41 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 13, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42723458252896,"sku":"9780823294756","price":64.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0598\/1922\/9280\/files\/NEZyc2h2Ty9tcXJ5VFArMStrRDhxZz09.webp?v=1777200814","url":"https:\/\/bijoucc.myshopify.com\/products\/form-and-foreskin-medieval-narratives-of-circumcision-paperback","provider":"CARIBBEAN CONNECT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}