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The call of human nature : the role of scatology in modern German literature / Dieter and Jacqueline Rollfinke.
LIBRA PT405 .R58 1986
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rollfinke, Dieter, 1942-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- German literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- German literature.
- Scatology in literature.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1986.
- Summary:
- The Call of Human Nature documents and analyzes the wide use of scatological themes and metaphors in an equally wide range of writings. The Rollfinkes' claim that the obscene expressions used by Americans emphasize sexual elements, whereas Germans stress the scatological. For many modern German authors, scatalogical images, metaphors, and motifs serve their purposes more effectively than would other metaphors.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 223-230.
- ISBN:
- 0870235362
- OCLC:
- 13214485
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