Food for thought
By: Louis Marin ; translated, with an afterword, by Mette Hjort.
Series: Parallax : re-visions of culture and society; Parallax (Baltimore, Md.)
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 273
Subjects: Body, Human, in literature; Human figure in art; Body, Human (Philosophy); Power (Philosophy)
Description: In this provocative volume, Louis Marin treats a subject to which some of the most exciting literary criticism has been devoted: the body as represented in text and image. From fairy tales to biblical narrative, from the divine body in the eucharist to the body of Louis XIV as described in his physicians' journals, Marin focuses on the peculiar relationship between verbal and oral functions - speaking and eating, boasting and gluttony, lying and cannibalism. Drawing on the methodologies of semiology, philosophy of language, and literary and art criticism, Marin explores works by Rabelais, La Fontaine, Perrault, and the Logic of Port-Royal. Throughout, he is concerned with the conceptualization of desire and pleasure, justice and force, natural violence and political power - and questions their ideological as well as their symbolic bases.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 265-268.
Translation of: La parole mangée et autres essais théologico-politiques.
Includes index.