Form and Foreskin: Medieval Narratives of Circumcision

by A W Strouse, A.W. Strouse, A.W. Strouse

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823294757
• ISBN13: 9780823294756
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"