Food, Poetry, and the Aesthetics of Consumption - Eating the Avant-garde - Hardback - 2007

From Plato's dismissal of food as a distraction from thought to Kant's relegation of the palate to the bottom of the hierarchy of the senses, the sense of taste has consistently been devalued by Western aesthetics. This book contains essays that examine the importance of food as a pivotal element - both materially and conceptually.
Year of publication: 2007
Pagination: 160 pages, 1 black & white halftones
Format: Hardback
Serie: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature