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"There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch."
- Bette Davis,
The Lonely Life,
1962
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ZIN Product Number: 10304117
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 Format: Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812217640
Release Date: Jan 10, 1988
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"Although the act of swearing, or cursing, has today been reduced to the four-letter interjection and unimaginative put-down, this has not always been the case. Elegant, sublime oaths and vicious imprecations mark the history of human conduct and language. Shedding light on the forbidden, misunderstood, and clandestinely pursued forms of interpersonal communication, The Anatomy of Swearing uniquely documents the history of taboo words and phrases. It presents the curious inquirer with a summary of what the best minds and most accomplished practitioners of the art have said and done inventively in the form of indiscreet, insulting, spiteful, or otherwise objectionable speech." "Swearing is one of the most cathartic and common modes of language. Montagu examines the genre in all its aspect - its origins, philosophy, and psychology - as well as its evolution and differing manifestations in various ages and cultures. Montagu demonstrates that the human race, regardless of time and culture, has always used invective language to lighten its burden. The Anatomy of Swearing traces this phenomenon from the ancient Egyptians, Hebrews, and Babylonians through Elizabethan England to the middle class of contemporary America."--BOOK JACKET.
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"Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially."
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|  | | | | 1 | Introduction: Why Swearing? | 1 | | 2 | The Antiquity of Swearing | 5 | | 3 | Cursing | 35 | | 4 | The Origin of Swearing: The Curse and the Oath | 55 | | 5 | Why Do Men Swear? The Physiology and Psychology of Swearing | 65 | | 6 | Words Used in Swearing: Their Sources and the Forms of Swearing | 90 | | 7 | The History of Swearing: Before the Reformation | 107 | | 8 | Swearing in Shakespeare | 136 | | 9 | Swearing in the Seventeenth Century | 154 | | 10 | Swearing in the Seventeenth Century: As Observed in the Urguhart and Motteux Translation of Rabelais | 188 | | 11 | Swearing in the Eighteenth Century | 200 | | 12 | Swearing in the Nineteenth Century | 224 | | 13 | Bloody: The Natural History of a Word | 239 | | 14 | Damn! | 278 | | 15 | The Four-Letter Words | 300 | | 16 | Olla-Podrida | 321 | | Notes | 345 | | Index | 359 |
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