Monday, April 11, 2022
Bodily Images
Mikhail Bakhtin, Rabelais and His World, tr. Helene Iswolsky (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984), p. 319:
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Wherever men laugh and curse, particularly in a familiar environment, their speech is filled with bodily images. The body copulates, defecates, overeats, and men's speech is flooded with genitals, bellies, defecations, urine, disease, noses, mouths, and dismembered parts.
