The Culinary Imagination: From Myth to Modernity - Rilegato

Gilbert, Sandra M.

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ISBN 10: 0393067653 ISBN 13: 9780393067651

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2014

Riassunto

In this stunning and important work, the prominent critic, poet, and memoirist Sandra M. Gilbert explores our relationship with food and eating through discussions of literature, art, and popular culture. Focusing on contemporary practices, The Culinary Imagination traces the social, aesthetic, and political history of food from myth to modernity, from ancient sources to our current wave of food mania.What does it mean to transform raw stuff into cooked dishes, which then become part of our own bodies; to savor festive meals yet resolve to renounce gluttony; to act as predators where in another life we might have become prey? Do the rituals of the kitchen have different meanings for men and women, for professional chefs and home cooks? Why, today, do so many of us turn so passionately toward table topics, on the page, online, and on screen? What are the philosophical implications of the food chain on which we all find ourselves?In The Culinary Imagination, Gilbert addresses these powerful questions through meditations on myths and memoirs, children’s books, novels, poems, food blogs, paintings, TV shows, and movies. Discussing figures from Rex Stout to Julia Child and Andy Warhol, from M. F. K. Fisher and Sylvia Plath to Alice Waters and Peter Singer, she analyzes the politics and poetics of our daily bread, investigating our complex self-definitions as producers, consumers, and connoisseurs of food. The result is an ambitious, lively, and learned examination of the ways in which our culture’s artists have represented food across a range of genres.

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Recensione:

"A rich, powerful, important delight of a book to mull over both for its splendid insights but also to use for years to come as a guidebook into the most important writing about food both now and in the past." --Louise DeSalvo

"There are many tasty morsels in Ms. Gilbert's book [...]" --The Economist

"an opulent, all-you-can-think buffet" --Julian Baggini, The Observer

L'autore:

Sandra M. Gilbert, poet and scholar, is the co-author of The Madwoman in the Attic, among many other works, and a recipient of the National Book Critics Circle's Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award.

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• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0393067653
• ISBN 13: 9780393067651
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 404