The Grotesque Body in Early Christian Discourse: Hell, Scatology, and Metamorphosis

ISBN-13: 9781845538859 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 240 str.

Istvan Czachesz

Opis

This study analyses how the iconography of bodily cruelty and visceral morality was produced and refined from the very start of Christian history.

Spis treści

Introduction Part One: Hell 1. Grotesque Bodies in the Christian Underworld 2. Torture in Hell and Reality 3. Body and Morality 4. The Bride of the Demon Part Two: Scatology 5. Deviance Labelling: The Politics of the Grotesque 6. Scatological Humor Part Three: Metamorphoses 7. Polymorphy 8. Speaking Asses and Other Devoted Animals 9. Metamorphoses of Christ 10. Counterintuitiveness and Embodiment: The Grotesque in Cognitive Perspective 11. Epilogue

O autorze

István Czachesz is Adjunct Professor of Protestant Theology at the University of Heidelberg, Germany.