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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Pagina 11
... expression of taste. As Stanley Cavell remarks in his insightful analysis of Shakespeare's fable of the belly in Coriolanus, ''the body has (along with the senses) two openings, or two sites for openings, ones that are connected, made ...
... expression of taste. As Stanley Cavell remarks in his insightful analysis of Shakespeare's fable of the belly in Coriolanus, ''the body has (along with the senses) two openings, or two sites for openings, ones that are connected, made ...
Pagina 13
... expression (gustus, sapor) which merely refers to a certain sense- organ (the inside of the mouth), and that the discrimination as well as the choice of palatable things is determined by it?'' (AN 144). What Kant faced was the ...
... expression (gustus, sapor) which merely refers to a certain sense- organ (the inside of the mouth), and that the discrimination as well as the choice of palatable things is determined by it?'' (AN 144). What Kant faced was the ...
Pagina 18
... expression, or (if misused) to the nether world of dregs and purgation. In the Century of Taste, Enlightenment philosophers take up the Miltonic model to represent the Man of Taste as a consumer—and digester—of beauty whose tasteful ...
... expression, or (if misused) to the nether world of dregs and purgation. In the Century of Taste, Enlightenment philosophers take up the Miltonic model to represent the Man of Taste as a consumer—and digester—of beauty whose tasteful ...
Pagina 26
... expression. The place of consumption as well as expression is the mouth, a feature ''no longer . . . situated in a typology of the body,'' as Jacques Derrida writes (also interpreting Bataille), but one that organizes all sites and ...
... expression. The place of consumption as well as expression is the mouth, a feature ''no longer . . . situated in a typology of the body,'' as Jacques Derrida writes (also interpreting Bataille), but one that organizes all sites and ...
Pagina 29
... expression through the symbolic economy of taste. As we shall see, this Miltonic possibility of tasting and expressing (rather than tasting and excreting) paves the way for eighteenth-century taste theory. In book 7 of Paradise Lost ...
... expression through the symbolic economy of taste. As we shall see, this Miltonic possibility of tasting and expressing (rather than tasting and excreting) paves the way for eighteenth-century taste theory. In book 7 of Paradise Lost ...
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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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