The Pleasures and Horrors of Eating

2010
The Pleasures and Horrors of Eating

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  • Author: Marion Gymnich
  • Publisher: V&R unipress GmbH
  • ISBN: 3899717759
  • Category : Dinners and dining in literature
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 466

Browsing through books and TV channels we find people pre-occupied with eating, cooking and competing with chefs. Eating and food in today's media have become a form of entertainment and art. A survey of literary history and culture shows to what extent eating used to be closely related to all areas of human life, to religion, eroticism and even to death. In this volume, early modern ideas of feasting, banqueting and culinary pleasures are juxtaposed with post-18th- and 19th-century concepts in which the intake of food is increasingly subjected to moral, theological and economic reservations. In a wide range of essays, various images, rhetorics and poetics of plenty are not only contrasted with the horrors of gluttony, they are also seen in the context of modern phenomena such as the anorexic body or the gourmandizing bête humaine. It is this vexing binary approach to eating and food which this volume traces within a wide chronological framework and which is at the core not only of literature, art and film, but also of a flourishing popular culture. --

Food Words

2013-06-27
Food Words

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  • Author: Peter Jackson
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
  • ISBN: 147252103X
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 312

Food Words is a series of provocative essays on some of the most important keywords in the emergent field of food studies, focusing on current controversies and on-going debates. Words like 'choice' and 'convenience' are often used as explanatory terms in understanding consumer behavior but are clearly ideological in the way they reflect particular positions and serve specific interests, while words like 'taste' and 'value' are no less complex and contested. Inspired by Raymond Williams, Food Words traces the multiple meanings of each of our keywords, tracking nuances in different (academic, commercial and policy) contexts. Mapping the dynamic meanings of each term, the book moves forward from critical assessment to active intervention -- an attitude that is reflected in the lively, sometimes combative, style of the essays. Each essay is research-based and fully referenced but accessible to the general reader. With a foreword by eminent food scholar Warren Belasco, Professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland-Baltmore County, and written by an inter-disciplinary team associated with the CONANX research project (Consumer culture in an 'age of anxiety'), Food Words will be essential reading for food scholars across the arts, humanities and social sciences.

Food, Media and Contemporary Culture

2016-01-26
Food, Media and Contemporary Culture

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  • Author: Peri Bradley
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 1137463236
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 314

Food, Media and Contemporary Culture is designed to interrogate the cultural fascination with food as the focus of a growing number of visual texts that reveal the deep, psychological relationship that each of us has with rituals of preparing, presenting and consuming food and images of food.

Food, Drink, and the Written Word in Britain, 1820-1945

2017-04-21
Food, Drink, and the Written Word in Britain, 1820-1945

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  • Author: Mary Addyman
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 135172715X
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 238

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- Introduction -- PART I: Devouring didacticism: Feeding young minds -- 1 Sweet poison: Food adulteration, fiction and the young glutton -- 2 Onions and honey, roast spiders and chutney: Unusual appetites and disorderly consumption in Edward Lear's nonsense verse -- PART II: An appetite for change: Hunger and nineteenth-century society -- 3 The rhetoric of taste: Reform, hunger and consumption in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton -- 4 Feeding the vampire: the ravenous hunger of the fin de siècle -- PART III: The power of the printed word: Advertising and markets -- 5 'A change comes over the spirit of your vision': Champagne in Britain, 1860-1914 -- 6 The language of advertising: Fashioning health food consumers at the fin de siècle -- PART IV: Into the twentieth century: Legacies and memories -- 7 'Yes, we had no bananas': Sharing memories of the Second World War -- 8 Meeting Mrs Beeton: the personal is political in the recipe book -- Conclusion: 'All else is vain, but eating is real': Gustatory bodies -- List of contributors -- Index

A History of Food in Literature

2017-05-18
A History of Food in Literature

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  • Author: Charlotte Boyce
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 1135022070
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 314

When novels, plays and poems refer to food, they are often doing much more than we might think. Recent critical thinking suggests that depictions of food in literary works can help to explain the complex relationship between the body, subjectivity and social structures. A History of Food in Literature provides a clear and comprehensive overview of significant episodes of food and its consumption in major canonical literary works from the medieval period to the twenty-first century. This volume contextualises these works with reference to pertinent historical and cultural materials such as cookery books, diaries and guides to good health, in order to engage with the critical debate on food and literature and how ideas of food have developed over the centuries. Organised chronologically and examining certain key writers from every period, including Chaucer, Shakespeare, Austen and Dickens, this book's enlightening critical analysis makes it relevant for anyone interested in the study of food and literature.

Digital Food TV

2022-11-01
Digital Food TV

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  • Author: Michelle Phillipov
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 1000820777
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 100

This book explores the new theoretical and political questions raised by food TV’s digital transformation. Bringing together analyses of food media texts and platform infrastructures—from streaming and catch-up TV to YouTube and Facebook food videos—it shows how new textual conventions, algorithmic practices, and market logics have redrawn the boundaries of food TV and altered the cultural place of food, and food media, in a digital era. With case studies of new and rerun television and emerging online genres, Digital Food TV considers what food television means at the current moment—a time when on-screen digital content is rapidly proliferating and televisual platforms and technologies are undergoing significant change. This book will appeal to students and scholars of food studies, television studies, and digital media studies.

Eating for Pleasure, People & Planet

2020-03-19
Eating for Pleasure, People & Planet

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  • Author: Tom Hunt
  • Publisher: Hachette UK
  • ISBN: 0857838040
  • Category : Self-Help
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 553

'If we could all live and eat a little more like Tom the world and the food chain would be in much better shape.' Anna Jones 'This book is like a hybrid of Michael Pollan and Anna Jones. It combines serious food politics with flavour-packed modern recipes. This is a call-to-arms for a different way of eating which seeks to lead us there not through lectures but through a love of food, in all its vibrancy and variety.' Bee Wilson Tom's mission is to teach a way of eating that prioritises the environment without sacrificing pleasure, taste and nutrition. Tom's manifesto, 'Root to Fruit' demonstrates how we can all become part of the solution, supporting a delicious, biodiverse and regenerative food system, giving us the skills and knowledge to shop, eat and cook sustainably, whilst eating healthier, better-tasting food for no extra cost.

THE PLEASURES OF LIFE

THE PLEASURES OF LIFE

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  • Author: SIR JOHN LUBBOCK
  • Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 230

Those who have the pleasure of attending the opening meetings of schools and colleges, and of giving away prizes and certificates, are generally expected at the same time to offer such words of counsel and encouragement as the experience of the world might enable them to give to those who are entering life.Having been myself when young rather prone to suffer from low spirits, I have at several of these gatherings taken the opportunity of dwelling on the privileges and blessings we enjoy, and I reprint here the substance of some of these addresses (omitting what was special to the circumstances of each case, and freely making any alterations and additions which have since occurred to me), hoping that the thoughts and quotations in which I have myself found most comfort may perhaps be of use to others also.It is hardly necessary to say that I have not by any means referred to all the sources of happiness open to us, some indeed of the greatest pleasures and blessings being altogether omitted.In reading over the proofs I feel that some sentences may appear too dogmatic, but I hope that allowance will be made for the circumstances under which they were delivered.

Consuming Gothic

2017-03-10
Consuming Gothic

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  • Author: Lorna Piatti-Farnell
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 1137450517
  • Category : Performing Arts
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 276

This book offers a critical analysis of the relationship between food and horror in post-1980 cinema. Evaluating the place of consumption within cinematic structures, Piatti-Farnell analyses how seemingly ordinary foods are re-evaluated in the Gothic framework of irrationality and desire. The complicated and often ambiguous relationship between food and horror draws important and inescapable connections to matters of disgust, hunger, abjection, violence, as well as the sensationalisation of transgressive corporeality and monstrous pleasures. By looking at food consumption within Gothic cinema, the book uncovers eating as a metaphorical activity of the self, where the haunting psychology of the everyday, the porous boundaries of the body, and the uncanny limits of consumer identity collide. Aimed at scholars, researchers, and students of the field, Consuming Gothic charts different manifestations of food and horror in film while identifying specific socio-political and cultural anxieties of contemporary life.

The Pleasures of Life, Complete

1895
The Pleasures of Life, Complete

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  • Author: Sir John Lubbock
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Conduct of life
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 370