Eating Otherwise
The Philosophy of Food in Twentieth-Century Literature
Published on 4. October 2017
978-1-108-27156-1 (ISBN)
Description
This book explores the philosophical implications of the popular adage that 'you are what you eat' through twentieth-century literature. It investigates the connections between the alimentary and the ontological: between what or how one eats and what one is. Maria Christou's focus is on two influential modernist figures, Georges Bataille and Samuel Beckett; and two influential postmodernist figures, Paul Auster and Margaret Atwood. She aims to theorize the relationship between modernism and postmodernism from a specifically alimentary perspective. By examining the work of these major twentieth-century authors, this book focuses on strange or unusual acts of eating - 'eating' otherwise - as a means to ways of 'being' otherwise. What can eating tell us about being, about who we are and about our being in the world? This powerful, innovative study takes literary food studies in a new direction.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises; 1 Halftones, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white
File size
3,65 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-108-27156-1 (9781108271561)
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09/2017
Cambridge University Press
€117.50
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Person
Maria Christou is an Associate Lecturer at the Department of English and Creative Writing at Lancaster University. She has published articles in Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities and Literature and Theology, and has a forthcoming chapter in The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food.
Content
Introduction, you are what you eat: thinking food otherwise; 1. George Bataille's pornographic food; 2. Samuel Beckett's alimentary Cogito; 3. Food, the fall, and the detective: the case of Paul Auster; 4. Food in Margaret Atwood's dystopias; Conclusion, modernism, postmodernism, and the otherwise of eating.
