Cock-A-Doodle-Doo!: Or, The Crowing of the Noble Cock Beneventano

Melville, Herman; Hayford, Harrison; MacDougall, Alma A.; Tanselle, G. Thomas

doi:10.1093/oseo/instance.00209208

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“…"No; don't I own that cock, and haven't I refused five hundred dollars for him?" 54 This haggling over the 'Noble Cock', within a barter economy that links the earthly domain to the heavenly realm, posits the bird as the Holy Grail and transforms it into the salvation object. However, as the cock is the 'object of exchange' between earthly and heavenly salvation, it becomes the site for the interchange of value centred on debt and credit, and the departure and return of presence (as it occurs in the resurrection).…”

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