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Fictions of Appetite explores and investigates the aesthetic significance of images of food, appetite and consumption in a body of modernist literature published in Italian between 1905 and 1939. The corpus examined includes novels, short stories, poems, essays and plays by F.T. Marinetti, Aldo Palazzeschi, Massimo Bontempelli, Paola Masino and Luigi Pirandello. The book underlines the literary relevance and symbolic implications of the «culinary sign», suggesting a link between the crisis of language and subjectivity usually associated with modernism and figures of consumption and corporeal self-obliteration in «alimentary» discourse. In revisiting these works under label of modernism, which has traditionally been shunned in the Italian critical field, the volume brings critical discourse on early twentieth-century Italian literature closely into line with that of other Western literatures. The author argues that an alimentary perspective not only sheds striking new light on each of the texts examined, but also illustrates the signifying power of the culinary sign, its relations to the aesthetic sphere and its prominent role in the construction of a modernist sensibility.

Appetite in literature. --- Italian literature --- Modernism (Literature) --- History and criticism.

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While moralists may stress the importance of the proper management of appetite, medieval and early modern narratives are full of images of monstrous and deformed appetites running out of control. Consuming Narratives examines the significance of these concepts, metaphors and narratives of appetite for understanding gender, politics, race and nation in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The essays in this wide-ranging collection consider appetite in relation to sexual and textual consumption, monstrous bodies and genders, races and nations. Each section is introduced by a leading academic in the field, while individual papers deal with a variety of texts, from the Revelations of Divine Love to Massinger's The Sea Voyage, and cover topics ranging from trade and colonialism to vampires, witchcraft and the sheela-na-gig figure. Consuming Narratives analyses representations of monstrous appetites, highlights the role of consumption within narrative practices and considers the ways in which appetites and ideas about them contributed to the production of textual, human and national bodies. It will be an essential book for all those interested in the intersections of gender, politics and narrative in the medieval and early modern periods.

English literature --- Human body in literature --- Appetite in literature. --- Sex role in literature. --- Monsters in literature. --- Women in literature. --- Littérature anglaise --- Corps humain dans la littérature --- Appétit dans la littérature --- Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature --- Monstres dans la littérature --- Femmes dans la littérature --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Littérature anglaise --- Corps humain dans la littérature --- Appétit dans la littérature --- Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature --- Monstres dans la littérature --- Femmes dans la littérature --- Appetite in literature --- Monsters in literature --- Sex role in literature --- Women and literature --- Women in literature --- Literature --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- History and criticism --- History --- Human body in literature.