Livre - Mapping the tasteland
860 BRU
Description
Livre
Gorman David
Presentation materielle : 1 vol. (xiv - 226 p.)
Dimensions : 23 cm
This book draws together the results of extensive research into the complex relationships that some modern European and Argentinean writers have enjoyed with food and wine. The European writers considered include Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin, Honoré de Balzac, Charles Baudelaire, Italo Svevo, Marcel Schwob, James Joyce and Robert Louis Stevenson; their Argentinean counterparts include Domingo F. Sarmiento, Lucio V. Mansilla, Roberto J. Payró and Ezequiel Martínez Estrada. Through an exploration of both fiction and non-fiction, the author shows how these thinkers’ ideas about food and wine influenced modernity and how they continue to influence contemporary issues such as ‘globalized’ menus and food poverty.
Contents Prologue, p.vii Acknowledgements, p.xi Translator’s Note, p.xiii Part 1 : Taste, Modernity, Centre and Periphery, p.1 Gourmet Physiology, or the Bourgeois Sorcery of Shapes, p.3 Food for the Body, Fasting for the Soul, p.27 Barthes : From the Semiology of Wine to the Empire of the Senses, p.43 Part 2 : Taste, Modernity and Centre I Bordeaux: The Human Condition as Purple Venality, p.47 Montaigne : The Botrytis and Château d’Yquem, p.49 Kierkegaard: A Philosophical Diet-et(h)ics and the Truthful Wine of Bordeaux, p.55 Part 3 : Taste, Modernity and Centre II Modernity and its Artificial Paradises, p.63 Brillat-Savarin, Baudelaire, Marx and Benjamin : From the Order of the Table and its Stimulants to the Disorder of the Drunken Barricades, p.65 Hemingway, or the Alcoholic Outpourings of Valpolicella, p.81 Monogamous Joyce and his Fendant de Sion Wine, p.87 Svevo, the Unconscious and the Generous Wine of Istria, p.97 Schwob, Stevenson and the Imaginary History of the Wines of Samos and Bourgogne, p.105 Part 4 : Taste, Modernity and Periphery Argentina : A Corpus of Wine and Food, p.115 Sarmiento, the Fermentation of the Country and the Preservation of Wine, p.117 Aldao : Servile Monk and Drinker, p.133 Mansilla, or Vernacular Sybaritism, p.141 Payró the Rogue : From the Counterfeiter of Carlón Wine to the Beaujolais of Villefranche, p.165 The Shadow of Martínez Estrada and his Alimentary Radiography, p.173 Marie Langer, or the Child as a Peronist Snack, p.207 Index, p.223
