1st Edition
The Grotesque Body in Early Christian Discourse Hell, Scatology and Metamorphosis
By Istvan Czachesz
Copyright 2012
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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Early Christian apocryphal and conical documents present us with grotesque images of the human body, often combining the playful and humorous with the repulsive, and fearful. First to third century Christian literature was shaped by the discourse around and imagery of the human body. This study analyses how the iconography of bodily cruelty and visceral morality was produced and refined from the... Read more
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
Biography
István Czachesz is Adjunct Professor of Protestant Theology at the University of Heidelberg, Germany.
