Food for Thought (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society)  -  Louis Marin

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KORTE INHOUD

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...
1997 Taal: Engels zie alle details...

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1997 Uitgever: The Johns Hopkins University Press 304 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0801856132 ISBN-13: 9780801856136