Delectable structures: Consumption and textuality in the Western tradition
Since antiquity western texts have employed representations of consumption to articulate questions of desire and power. Images of eating and drinking serve not only to structure texts but also to question and subvert institutional practices, traditional dichotomies of value, and discourse itself. Th...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
1990
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9110187 |