The banquet gives rise to a special moment when thought and the senses—words and food—enhance each other. Throughout history, the ideal of the symposium has reconciled the angel and the beast in the human, renewing the interdependence between the mouth that speaks and the mouth that eats. Michel Jeanneret's lively book explores the paradigm of the banquet as a guide to significant tendencies in Renaissance Humanist culture and shows how this culture in turn illuminates the tensions between physical and mental pleasures. Ranging widely over French, Italian, German, and Latin texts, Jeanneret not only investigates the meal as a narrative artefact but enquires as well into aspects of sixteenth-century anthropology and aesthetics.
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Michael Jeanneret is professor of French literature at the University of Geneva.
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I had plans of using this book for my master's thesis, but was unable to focus on the concept of feasting in the end (the thesis took on another direction). I wrote my master's a few years ago, and have never forgotten the excellent scholarship of Michel Jeanneret.Jeanneret is able to pull from a number of disciplines and, as a result, this work demonstrates the complexity of the Renaissance. His sensitivity and acute understanding of this time period allows him to pursue interesting angles on the meaning of feasting. He also displays a self-reflexive attitude towards his own scholarship, thus adding yet another dimension to this work. It is scholarship that reminds me of Huizinga, Burckhardt, Pleij, etc. Even if this isn't within your own field of research (if you happen to be a graduate student or professor), this book is well worth reading.
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Our gastronomy is ill at ease: it oscillates between fast food and nouvelle cuisine, we compute the time it takes to eat a good meal and anxiously count calories. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cuisine papale, convivial scene, macaronic poetry, mouth that speaks, literary banquet, fresco meal, other banquets, gastronomic pleasure, mimetic power Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Fourth Book, Les Sérées, Middle Ages, The Ash Wednesday Supper, Plato's Symposium, Last Supper, The Fifth Book, Béroalde de Verville, Giordano Bruno, Guillaume Bouchet, The Profane Feast, Cena Trimalchionis, Friar John, Land of Cockaigne, Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics, Cinq Banquets, Last Pause, Petronius's Satyricon, The Lapiths, Roman Satire, Xenophon's Symposium, Another German, Dante's Convivio, Savouring the Past, Sec Bakhtin New!
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Our gastronomy is ill at ease: it oscillates between fast food and nouvelle cuisine, we compute the time it takes to eat a good meal and anxiously count calories. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cuisine papale, convivial scene, macaronic poetry, mouth that speaks, literary banquet, fresco meal, other banquets, gastronomic pleasure, mimetic power Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Fourth Book, Les Sérées, Middle Ages, The Ash Wednesday Supper, Plato's Symposium, Last Supper, The Fifth Book, Béroalde de Verville, Giordano Bruno, Guillaume Bouchet, The Profane Feast, Cena Trimalchionis, Friar John, Land of Cockaigne, Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics, Cinq Banquets, Last Pause, Petronius's Satyricon, The Lapiths, Roman Satire, Xenophon's Symposium, Another German, Dante's Convivio, Savouring the Past, Sec Bakhtin New!
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- Rabelais and His World by Mikhail Bakhtin on 8 pages
- The Ash Wednesday Supper (RSART: Renaissance Society of America Reprint Text Series) by Giordano Bruno on 7 pages
- Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais on 5 pages
- Gargantua and Pantagruel (Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 24) by Francois Rabelais on 5 pages
- The Cornucopian Text: Problems in Writing in the French Renaissance by Terence Cave on 4 pages
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- Staging Domesticity: Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture) by Wendy Wall in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Ritual in Early Modern Europe (New Approaches to European History) by Edward Muir on page 131, and page 145
- Literature and Nation in the Sixteenth Century: Inventing Renaissance France by Timothy Hampton in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Contagion: Sexuality, Disease, and Death in German Idealism and Romanticism (Studies in Continental Thought) by David F. Krell in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Apples of Gold in Settings of Silver: Stories of Dinner as a Work of Art by Carolin C. Young in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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