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Darrera modificació: 2023-11-14
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Tomasik, Timothy J., "From Carnival to Cockaigne: Banquet and Gaster as Humanist Anti-Heroes in Early Modern France", Food & History, 21/1 [= Fat Worlds. Feasters and Loafers in Medieval and Early Modern Europe / Gourmands et fainéants dans l'Europe médiévale et moderne, ed. Colbertaldo, Roberta - Ott, Christine] (2023), 55-74.
- Resum
- The cyclical battle between Carnival and Lent staged in medieval French literary texts is depicted during the French Renaissance via characters who reveal decidedly humanistic agendas. The eponymous character Banquet from the 1507 morality play, La Condamnation de Banquet, and Gaster from Rabelais's Quart Livre evoke excess and gluttony, while also providing a pretext for the transmission of new culinary knowledge. Though these allegorical figures raise the specter of gluttony as a moral failing, both are also manifestations of sublimated culinary desires. These desires are modulated, negotiated and resolved through the alliance of culinary, dietetic and literary discourses. Though both Banquet and Gaster are condemned, at least provisionally, they are also resurrected and rehabilitated through the palliative power of culinary literature. Within these literary texts, cookbook language and dietetic doctrine counter the discourse of religious morality in order to mobilize and elevate culinary discourses in service to humanistic thought. Long lists of specific food items in both texts, which may seem to confirm a condemnation of gluttony, in fact celebrate a new land of plenty, a cookbook Cockaigne
- Matèries
- Alimentació
Religió
Cuina i confiteria
Història de la literatura
- URL
- https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1484/J.FOO ...
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