Leftovers : eating, drinking and re-thinking with case studies from post-war French fiction /

"Eating and drinking are essential to survival. Yet for human animals, they are intrinsically ambivalent, proliferating with ideological, historical and psychological leftovers. This study reveals and mobilizes the provisional meanings, repressed experiences and unacknowledged tensions bound up...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cruickshank, Ruth, 1967- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2019.
Colección:Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 67.
Temas:
1900-1999
French fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Food in literature.
Food habits in literature.
Roman français > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Aliments dans la littérature.
Habitudes alimentaires dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > French.
Food habits in literature
Food in literature
French fiction
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Tapping the critical potential of representations of eating and drinking
  • (Re-)thinking with eating and drinking
  • Re-thinking the story : food, drink and interpretation in Alan Robbe-Grillet's Les Gommes/The erasers
  • Feeding and reading ambivalence : incorporating difference in Annie Ernaux's Les Armoires vides/Cleaned out
  • Food questioning values in Marie Darrieussecq's Truismes/Pig tales
  • Weighing up the potential of literary consumption : feeding on scraps in Michel Houellebecq's La Carte et le territoire/The map and the territory
  • Conclusion: Taking on leftovers.

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