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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... experience, Milton was struggling to represent the gustatory metaphor in Paradise Lost and Regained. Satan conjures ap- petite, manipulating consumer desire and turning the fruit into more than a common apple, or dietary container of ...
... experience, Milton was struggling to represent the gustatory metaphor in Paradise Lost and Regained. Satan conjures ap- petite, manipulating consumer desire and turning the fruit into more than a common apple, or dietary container of ...
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... experience . By doing away with the concept of innate ideas , Locke made identity ( no longer “ identity ” or assumed oneness ) into a more complex social construct of selfhood dependent on how human beings process experience through ...
... experience . By doing away with the concept of innate ideas , Locke made identity ( no longer “ identity ” or assumed oneness ) into a more complex social construct of selfhood dependent on how human beings process experience through ...
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... experience for human identity . Once the body itself could think , the Hobbesian image of the state was especially threatening . — Like other early modern theorists , Hobbes gave appetite the serious philo- sophical attention that taste ...
... experience for human identity . Once the body itself could think , the Hobbesian image of the state was especially threatening . — Like other early modern theorists , Hobbes gave appetite the serious philo- sophical attention that taste ...
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... tied to the " lower " somatic world of appetite . In Timaeus Plato attempts a solution by limiting aesthetic experience to the head and cordoning the body off from the mind through the thin isthmus ΙΟ Aesthetics and Appetite.
... tied to the " lower " somatic world of appetite . In Timaeus Plato attempts a solution by limiting aesthetic experience to the head and cordoning the body off from the mind through the thin isthmus ΙΟ Aesthetics and Appetite.
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... touch and taste the world of sensory reality . A perhaps unex- pected analogy for the enlightened Man of Taste can be found in Milton's angels , who experience pleasure not only in localized bodily Aesthetics and Appetite II.
... touch and taste the world of sensory reality . A perhaps unex- pected analogy for the enlightened Man of Taste can be found in Milton's angels , who experience pleasure not only in localized bodily Aesthetics and Appetite II.
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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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