Food, Poetry, and the Aesthetics of Consumption - Delville, Michel
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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.
The essays in this book examine the importance of food as a pivotal element - both materially and conceptually - in the history of the Western avant-garde.

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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.
The essays in this book examine the importance of food as a pivotal element - both materially and conceptually - in the history of the Western avant-garde.
Autorenporträt
Michel Delville teaches English and American literatures, as well as comparative literature, at the University of Liège, Belgium, where he directs the Interdisciplinary Center for Applied Poetics. He is the author of several books including J.G. Ballard (1998), Hamlet & Co (2001; with Pierre Michel), Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, and the Secret History of Maximalism (2005; with Andrew Norris), and The American Prose Poem, which won the 1998 SAMLA Studies Book Award. He recently co-edited three volumes of essays on postwar poetry (The Mechanics of the Mirage, 2000; Sound as Sense: US Poetry &/In Music, 2004; Poésie, Musique, Modernité, 2004).