The Loaded Table: Representations of Food in Roman Literature - Brossura

Gowers, Emily

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0198150822 ISBN 13: 9780198150824

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, USA, 1997

Riassunto

This book offers a novel approach to Roman culture, looking at food as it is represented in literature. Gowers addresses many of the problems that arise when a material subject is translated into words, and contains fresh interpretations of Latin texts that have been unjustly undervalued-comedy, satire, epigrams, letters, and iambics. While often regarded as something trivial, food was in fact one of the most suggestive images for Roman civilization.

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Recensione

One might say that she works at many levels, but never on the surface. The persistence and ingenuity with which she seeks out underlying meanings, symbolisms, codes, and all suchlike phenomena in her chosen texts is admirable, ie one can but admire it; and her own writing is clear and sometimes witty...will be a standard reference for a very long time to come and the Clarendon Press are to congratulated on the elegance of their production, jsut as the author is to be felicitated on a truly massive job of research (Petits Propos Culinaires)

This is a witty and engaging book, written with a certain vigor of conviction and purpose...The best thing about the book is G.'s fine literary sensitivity, spirited writing, humour, and openness to conflicting approaches to literature: she looks at old things in new ways...even at those times when I cannot agree with her, she forces me to think and to reason why I cannot. This is a rich book without being fat.

L'autore

Emily Gowers is at University College, London.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Oxford University Press, USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0198150822
• ISBN 13: 9780198150824
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 348
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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