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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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Robert Frost and a Poetics of Appetite reads Frost's poetry within a theoretical perspective generated, but not limited by feminist analysis, and it evaluates Frost's persistent feminising of poetic language in ways that he typically dramatises as both erotic and humiliating. Kearns examines how Frost's dual and potentially conflicting obligations - to be manly and to be a poet - inform his entire poetics. Rather than approaching Frost's poetry with the methods and assumptions of deconstruction in mind, this book finds that Frost himself forces a deconstructive reading: his unstable ironies, his complexities and his manipulations of form are designed precisely to produce the conviction that any suggestion of significance is arbitrary and personal. The study unites biography, psychology and feminism in creating an adept and imaginative instrument of interpretation.
Feminism and literature --- United States --- History --- 20th century --- Poetics --- Frost, Robert Lee --- Criticism and interpretation --- Frost, Robert, - 1874-1963 - Criticism and interpretation. --- Sex (Psychology) in literature. --- Appetite in literature. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Poetry --- Psychological aspects. --- Frost, Robert, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Frost, Robert Lee, --- פראסט, ראבערט, --- פרוסט, רוברט, --- فروست ، روبرت --- Фрост, Роберт,
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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
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Anna Krugovoy Silver examines the ways nineteenth-century British writers used physical states of the female body - hunger, appetite, fat and slenderness - in the creation of female characters. Silver argues that anorexia nervosa, first diagnosed in 1873, serves as a paradigm for the cultural ideal of middle-class womanhood in Victorian Britain. In addition, Silver relates these literary expressions to the representation of women's bodies in the conduct books, beauty manuals and other non-fiction prose of the period, contending that women 'performed' their gender and class alliances through the slender body. Silver discusses a wide range of writers including Charlotte Brontë, Christina Rossetti, Charles Dickens, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Bram Stoker and Lewis Carroll to show that mainstream models of middle-class Victorian womanhood share important qualities with the beliefs or behaviours of the anorexic girl or woman.
English literature --- Anorexia nervosa in literature. --- Women and literature --- Eating disorders in literature. --- Human body in literature. --- Body image in literature. --- Sex role in literature. --- Appetite in literature. --- Hunger in literature. --- Women in literature. --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- History and criticism. --- History --- 820-3 "18/19" --- 820-3 "18/19" Engelse literatuur: proza--Hedendaagse Tijd --- Engelse literatuur: proza--Hedendaagse Tijd --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- History and criticism
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