Detachable Penises and Holes in Knowledge: Reading Exeter Riddles 44 and 62 Alongside Le Fevre de Creil [The Blacksmith of Creil] and Jean Bodel's Le Sohait des Vez [The Dream of Cocks]
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10412573.2021.1893080" target="_blank" >10.1080/10412573.2021.1893080</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Detachable Penises and Holes in Knowledge: Reading Exeter Riddles 44 and 62 Alongside Le Fevre de Creil [The Blacksmith of Creil] and Jean Bodel's Le Sohait des Vez [The Dream of Cocks]
Original language description
In this essay, I read two suggestive Exeter Riddles, 44 ("Key/Phallus") and 62 ("Borer/Poker/Phallus"), which are connected though their use of the figure of a detached penis, in order to counter conventional interpretations that claim containment of the dangerous eroticism with a safe solution. I argue that the separable phalluses in motion in the two Old English enigmas communicate the instability and reversibility of the master/servant relations; the existence of holes in our knowledge as both pleasurable and threatening possibilities; the intertwining of the erotic and non-erotic in the language; and the implication of the reader in the power games set up by the texts. After comparing instances of penile detachment and proliferation in two fabliaux, Le Fevre de Creil [The Blacksmith of Creil] and Jean Bodel's Le Sohait des Vez [The Dream of Cocks], I conclude that Exeter Riddles 44 and 62 emerge as less graphic than the late-medieval French comic narratives, but also less restrictive in envisioning the varied forms of human sexuality.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics
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Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Exemplaria
ISSN
1041-2573
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Volume of the periodical
33
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
18
Pages from-to
1-18
UT code for WoS article
000664327300001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85108296712