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Food in literature. --- Gastronomy in literature.

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This volume examines food as subject, form, landscape, polemic, and aesthetic statement in literature. With essays analyzing food and race, queer food, intoxicated poets, avant-garde food writing, vegetarianism, the recipe, the supermarket, food comics, and vampiric eating, this collection brings together fascinating work from leading scholars in the field. It is the first volume to offer an overview of literary food studies and reflect on its origins, developments, and applications. Taking up maxims such as 'we are what we eat', it traces the origins of literary food studies and examines key questions in cultural texts from different global literary traditions. It charts the trajectories of the field in relation to work in critical race studies, postcolonial studies, and children's literature, positing an omnivorous method for the field at large.

Food in literature. --- Food --- Gastronomy in literature. --- Food habits in literature. --- Social aspects.

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Dans cet article, nous proposons une vision plus complexe par rapport aux récits conventionnels sur une pretendue positivité prémoderne du “gras”, en soutenant que la dimension corporelle de l’abondance alimentaire a été négligée ou réduite à la dichotomie d’un corps médiéval “excessif” et “ouvert” d'une part, et d’un corps de plus en plus contrôlé suite à la Réforme et à la “bourgeoisification” d’autre part.Sans remettre en question les arguments importants de Bakhtine et d’Elias, nous affirmons que leurs thèses sur la contre-culture carnavalesque et le processus de civilisation ont parfois été utilisées pour servir un argument dichotomique : culture populaire contre haute culture ; haine contre glorification du corps ; jeûne contre carnaval. Après un aperçu de l’état de l’art concernant le Carnaval (et le Carême) prémoderne, les représentations prémodernes de Cockaigne et les corps gras prémodernes, nous présentons les contributions à ce volume, qui vise à analyser la complexité et la polysémie des différentes représentations des “Mondes gras” depuis leur première apparition au XIIe siècle jusqu’au XVIIe siècle. In this introductory article, we aim to complicate conventional narratives about premodern fatphilia, arguing that the bodily dimension of alimentary abundance has been neglected or reduced to the dichotomy of a medieval, “excessive” and “open” body on the one hand, and the increasingly controlled body that resulted from the Reformation and “bourgeoisification” on the other.Without questioning Bakhtin’s and Elias’s important arguments, we claim that their theses on carnivalesque counterculture and the process of civilization have sometimes been used to further a dichotomous argument: popular culture versus high culture; hatred versus glorification of the body; fasting versus Carnival. After an overview of the state of the art concerning premodern Carnival (and Lent), premodern representations of Cockaigne, and premodern fat bodies, we present the contributions to this volume, which aims to analyse the complexity and polysemy of different representations of “Fat Worlds” from their first appearance in the twelfth century until the seventeenth century.

History of civilization --- anno 500-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Europe --- Food --- Gastronomy --- Gastronomy in literature. --- History.

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Gastronomy in literature. --- Food in literature. --- Literature, Modern --- History and criticism.

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Dinners and dining in literature --- Gastronomy in literature --- Boccaccio, Giovanni, --- Dinners and dining in literature. --- Gastronomy in literature. --- Boccaccio (Giovanni) --- Banquets / dans la littérature. --- Boccace. --- Gastmalen / in de letterkunde. --- Boccaccio, Giovanni, - 1313-1375 - Decamerone