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Taste and the ancient senses
\"The sense of taste is at once highly individual and deeply cultural. Taste is a functional sense, so closely tied with the physical necessity for food that it is frequently characterised among the lower, bodily sensations. Assumed to operate on a primitive, nearly instinctual level, taste requires intimate interaction with its objects of perception, which enter the mouth, pass through the throat and eventually become part of the perceiver. Taste and the Ancient Senses explores the use of taste metaphors in Graeco-Roman literature, which provides us with a window into their own theorising about taste. The values and meaning of tastes, food and eating are also revealed through cultural practices and habits which are accessible to us through the literary, historical and material record. It is in these contexts that we can examine the symbolic function and social values that surround the tastes the Greeks and Romans embrace and reject\"--Publisher description.
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Matters of taste
'De gustibus et coloribus non disputandum' - there's no accounting for taste nor colours the medieval adage says. Taste will nevertheless be disputed in this issue of Essays in French Literature and Culture which brings together five articles, exploring taste in texts from seventeenth to twentieth century while reflecting on the relationship between the human being and the sensory world.
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Consumable Reading and Children's Literature
By examining material and sensory interactions in children's literature in the past, present and theorizing on the future, this monograph studies how multisensory experiences may enhance early childhood literacy practices.
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Taste
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,Tasteresituates 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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Die Entdeckung der Sinne bei Uwe Timm
Im folgenden Beitrag wird der Versuch unternommen, die Aufwertung der sogenannten niederen Sinne im Werk Uwe Timms darzustellen. Zwar betont Timm immer wieder, dass das Bild den Ausgangspunkt für sein Erzählen bildet, doch die „niederen Sinne“ spielen in seinem Erzählduktus eine ebenso bedeutende Rolle. Indem er sich auf autobiografische Erfahrungen und das kollektive Gedächtnis bezieht, kreiert er ein multisensorisches Weltbild. Haptik kommt in verschiedenen Formen zum Ausdruck: als Tastsinn (im erotischen und ökonomischen Kontext), Gleichgewichtsinn und Temperatursinn (Erfahrungen der Heimkehrer, die in russischer Gefangenschaft waren). Geschmack und Geruch werden trotz ihrer Flüchtigkeit als Träger nicht nur des individuellen sondern auch des kollektiven Gedächtnisses dargestellt. Durch die Einführung der „niederen“ Sinne unternimmt Timm eine kulturwissenschaftliche Rekonstruktion der Gegenwart und Vergangenheit.
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Food Culture and Literary Imagination in Early Modern Italy
As the long sixteenth century came to a close, new positive ideas of gusto/ taste opened a rich counter vision of food and taste where material practice, sensory perceptions and imagination contended with traditional social values, morality, and dietetic/medical discourse. Exploring the complex and evocative ways the early modern Italian culture of food was imagined in the literature of the time, Food Culture and the Literary Imagination in Early Modern Italy reveals that while a moral and disciplinary vision tried to control the discourse on food and eating in medical and dietetic treatises of the sixteenth century and prescriptive literature, a wide range of literary works contributed to a revolution in eating and taste. In the process long held visions of food and eating, as related to social order and hierarchy, medicine, sexuality and gender, religion and morality, pleasure and the senses, were questioned, tested and overturned, and eating and its pleasures would never be the same.
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Leitura no Brasil, leitura do Brasil
O texto consiste em uma reflexão sobre a leitura no Brasil. A autora desenvolve o argumento de que o pouco estímulo e o tardio esforço de cultivar a leitura no Brasil acompanharam a dificuldade histórica do país em universalizar o acesso à educação e, recentemente, em melhorar a qualidade da educação oferecida. O hábito de leitura, embora estreitamente relacionado às práticas formais de educação, não se restringe a elas. Há modalidades que precisam ser consideradas quando o propósito é perceber se um país valoriza ou não o gosto pela leitura. O texto pretende contemplar algumas dessas possibilidades.
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