Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 404 g
Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 404 g
Reihe: Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society
ISBN: 978-0-8018-5613-6
Verlag: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PR
From fairy tales to biblical narrative, from the divine body in the eucharist to the body of Louis XIV as described in his physicians' journals, the peculiar relationship between speaking and eating, boasting and gluttony, lying and cannibalism.
A wicked queen orders the palace cook to kill her grandchildren and serve them up for dinner—"in a sauce Robert." But as any good cook knows, this sauce is properly served with game, not domestic animals. Does the ogress transgress? Perhaps, but the cook breaks the rules as well. Deceiving his mistress, he rescues the children and instead serves goat and lamb.
In this provocative volume, Louis Marin treats a subject to which some of the most exciting literary criticism has been devoted: the body as represented in text and image. From fairy tales to biblical narrative, from the divine body in the eucharist to the body of Louis XIV as described in his physicians' journals, Marin focuses on the peculiar relationship between verbal and oral functions—speaking and eating, boasting and gluttony, lying and cannibalism. Drawing on the methodologies of semiology, philosophy of language, and literary and art criticism, Marin explores works by Rabelais, La Fontaine, Perrault, and the Logic of Port-Royal. Throughout, he is concerned with the conceptualization of desire and pleasure, justice and force, natural violence and political power—and questions their ideological as well as their symbolic bases.
Weitere Infos & Material
List of Illustrations
Introduction to the English-Language Edition
Part I: Food for Thought
Chapter 1. The Body of the Divinity Captured by Signs
Part II: Eat, Speak, and Write
Chapter 2. "Donkey-Skin," or Orality
Chapter 3. Little Butterpot, or the Spell of the Voice
Chapter 4. The Fabulous Animal
Chapter 5. "The Reason of the Strongest is Always the Best"
Chapter 6. Utopic Rabelaisian Bodies
Part III: The Culinary Sign in the Land of Fairies and Ogres
Chapter 7. Theoretical Aperitif
Chapter 8. Roast Blood Sausage, or the Gush of Performatives
Chapter 9. Robert Sauce
Chapter 10. Recipes of Power
Chapter 11. Stew and Roast, or the Mastery of Discourse and the Illusions of Eros
Chapter 12. Butcher's Meat and Game, or the Culinary Sign Within Generalized Communication
Part IV: The King's Body
Chapter 13. The Portrait of the King's Glorious Body
Chapter 14. The Pathetic Body and its Doctor: The "Medical Diary of Louis XIV"
Afterword: Portrait of the Translator
Bibliography
Index
