Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-216) and indexes.
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Hell -- Grotesque bodies in the Christian underworld -- Torture in Hell and reality -- Body and mortality -- The bride of the demon -- Scatology -- Deviance labeling : the politics of the grotesque -- Scatological humor -- Metamorphoses -- Polymorphy -- Speaking asses and other devoted animals -- Metamorphoses of Christ -- Counterintuitiveness and embodiment : the grotesque in cognitive perspective.
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Christian literature, Early-- History and criticism.