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scatology the scientific study of excrement, esp in medicine for diagnostic purposes, and in palaeontology of fossilized excrement How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| His quicksilver shifts of register--from the lyrical to the scrupulously historical to the scatalogical (he is also the poet of shit) to the ontological/hysterical to the goofball to the vatic and prophetic--are the work of a virtuoso. The fourth chapter, "Textualizing the Other's Body," uses Bakhtin and others to explicate Quevedo's scatalogical Buscon as well as the equation of female picaras with prostitutes. The use of explicit or even scatalogical language by a great many Latina writers is indicative of the frustrations and anger brought on by a desire to break with traditional values, what Bernardez would classify as an "assertive-constructive angel' aimed at breaking through cultural subordination (8). |
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