Eating Otherwise: The Philosophy of Food in Twentieth-Century Literature

ISBN-13: 9781108416825 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 214 str.

Maria Christou

Opis

'You are what you eat' is an adage taken seriously as this book uncovers connections between the alimentary and ontological.

Spis treści

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.