Form and Foreskin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Form and Foreskin write by A. W. Strouse. This book was released on 2021-04-13. Form and Foreskin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Form & Foreskin
Form & Foreskin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Form & Foreskin write by A W Strouse. This book was released on 2021-04-13. Form & Foreskin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Form and Foreskin
Form and Foreskin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Form and Foreskin write by A. W. Strouse. This book was released on 2021-04-06. Form and Foreskin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. .
Marked in Your Flesh
Marked in Your Flesh - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Marked in Your Flesh write by Leonard B. Glick. This book was released on 2005-06-30. Marked in Your Flesh available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book of Genesis tells us that God made a covenant with Abraham, promising him a glorious posterity on the condition that he and all his male descendents must be circumcised. For thousands of years thereafter, the distinctive practice of circumcision served to set the Jews apart from their neighbors. The apostle Paul rejected it as a worthless practice, emblematic of Judaism's fixation on physical matters. Christian theologians followed his lead, arguing that whereas Christians sought spiritual fulfillment, Jews remained mired in such pointless concerns as diet and circumcision. As time went on, Europeans developed folklore about malicious Jews who performed sacrificial murders of Christian children and delighted in genital mutilation. But Jews held unwaveringly to the belief that being a Jewish male meant being physically circumcised and to this day even most non-observant Jews continue to follow this practice. In this book, Leonard B. Glick offers a history of Jewish and Christian beliefs about circumcision from its ancient origins to the current controversy. By the turn of the century, more and more physicians in America and England--but not, interestingly, in continental Europe--were performing the procedure routinely. Glick shows that Jewish American physicians were and continue to be especially vocal and influential champions of the practice which, he notes, serves to erase the visible difference between Jewish and gentile males. Informed medical opinion is now unanimous that circumcision confers no benefit and the practice has declined. In Jewish circles it is virtually taboo to question circumcision, but Glick does not flinch from asking whether this procedure should continue to be the defining feature of modern Jewish identity.
The Foreskin
The Foreskin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Foreskin write by Samuel M Carnes. This book was released on 2015-12-18. The Foreskin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. So many people have no idea what the foreskin is, how it works or its benefits. Instead, all they hear are the many myths surrounding it. This book is dedicated to educating about the foreskin and answering your questions about it. Hopefully, this will help to normalize the foreskin and show that not only is it cool to be intact it is also healthier and all around better.
