Taste: A Literary HistoryYale University Press, 1 okt 2008 - 272 pagina's What does eating have to do with aesthetic taste? While most accounts of aesthetic history avoid the gustatory aspects of taste, this book rewrites standard history to uncover the constitutive and dramatic tension between appetite and aesthetics at the heart of British literary tradition. From Milton through the Romantics, the metaphor of taste serves to mediate aesthetic judgment and consumerism, gusto and snobbery, gastronomes and gluttons, vampires and vegetarians, as well as the philosophy and physiology of food.The author advances a theory of taste based on Milton’s model of the human as consumer (and digester) of food, words, and other commodities—a consumer whose tasteful, subliminal self remains haunted by its own corporeality. Radically rereading Wordsworth’s feeding mind, Lamb’s gastronomical essays, Byron’s cannibals and other deviant diners, and Kantian nausea, Taste resituates Romanticism as a period that naturally saw the rise of the restaurant and the pleasures of the table as a cultural field for the practice of aesthetics. |
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... arts , adopting the same juridical language and concern with philosophical principles that defined the eighteenth - century discourse of aesthetics . Just as the Enlightenment Man of Taste worked hard to distinguish specific qualities ...
... arts , adopting the same juridical language and concern with philosophical principles that defined the eighteenth - century discourse of aesthetics . Just as the Enlightenment Man of Taste worked hard to distinguish specific qualities ...
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... art of judgment . For less belletristic taste philosophers as well , the meal was an occasion for social community that transcended physical gratification . Kant delivered his early thoughts on taste in a series of lectures from 1772 to ...
... art of judgment . For less belletristic taste philosophers as well , the meal was an occasion for social community that transcended physical gratification . Kant delivered his early thoughts on taste in a series of lectures from 1772 to ...
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... in aesthetic experi- ence only at the risk of reducing Milton to soup , as it were , mixing his sub- limities in the unmediated stew of sensual gratification . By the nineteenth century , the fine arts were no Aesthetics and Appetite 13.
... in aesthetic experi- ence only at the risk of reducing Milton to soup , as it were , mixing his sub- limities in the unmediated stew of sensual gratification . By the nineteenth century , the fine arts were no Aesthetics and Appetite 13.
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A Literary History Denise Gigante. By the nineteenth century , the fine arts were no longer the exclusive domain of ... art ) .42 Nevertheless , the association of mind with male and body with female continued . As Carolyn Korsmeyer ...
A Literary History Denise Gigante. By the nineteenth century , the fine arts were no longer the exclusive domain of ... art ) .42 Nevertheless , the association of mind with male and body with female continued . As Carolyn Korsmeyer ...
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... arts of sight and hearing were thought to promote reflective pleasure , the “ lower " experi- ential arts appealing directly to the senses promoted pleasure , which Aristotle for one claimed is " not the product of art . " In classical ...
... arts of sight and hearing were thought to promote reflective pleasure , the “ lower " experi- ential arts appealing directly to the senses promoted pleasure , which Aristotle for one claimed is " not the product of art . " In classical ...
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4 Digesting Wordsworth | 68 |
5 Lambs LowUrban Taste | 88 |
Byron | 116 |
7 Keatss Nausea | 138 |
George IV | 160 |
Notes | 180 |
Index | 228 |
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