Mapping the Tasteland

Explorations in Food and Wine in Argentinean and European Culture

von Matias Bruera

240 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This book draws together the results of extensive research into the complex relationships that some modern European and Argentinean writers have enjoyed with food and wine. The European writers considered include Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin, Honoré de Balzac, Charles Baudelaire, Italo Svevo, Marcel Schwob, James Joyce and Robert Louis Stevenson; their Argentinean counterparts include Domingo F. Sarmiento, Lucio V. Mansilla, Roberto J. Payró and Ezequiel Martínez Estrada. Through an exploration of both fiction and non-fiction, the author shows how these thinkers’ ideas about food and wine influenced modernity and how they continue to influence contemporary issues such as ‘globalized’ menus and food poverty.

• Reihe: Hispanic Studies: Culture and Ideas
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein
• ISBN: 9783039113453
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 12.12.2013
• Größe: 22.5 x 15 cm
• Verlag: Peter Lang Group AG, International Academic Publishers
• Reihe herausgegeben von: Claudio Canaparo