7.0061 Rs: Eating and Digesting (3/56)
Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Fri, 18 Jun 1993 09:57:05 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 7, No. 0061. Friday, 18 Jun 1993.
(1) Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1993 17:17:20 -0500 (EST) (33 lines)
From: KIRSHENBLATT@ACFcluster.NYU.EDU
Subject: Re: Eating
(2) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 10:12:22 -0230 (11 lines)
From: payers@kean.ucs.mun.ca
Subject: eating and digestion
(3) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 93 14:45:40 BST (12 lines)
From: frsfwl <F.W.Langley@french.hull.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: 7.0057 Qs: Eating
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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1993 17:17:20 -0500 (EST)
From: KIRSHENBLATT@ACFcluster.NYU.EDU
Subject: Re: 7.0057 Qs: Jesuits; GUIDE; Quote; Eating; Canadian E-Lists (5/59
Date sent: 16-JUN-1993
>From: LEONARD MARSH <marsh@LEMOYNE.BITNET>
>Subject: Eating & Digestion
>
>Can anyone help me in identifying any texts (especially in European
Renaissance)
>that contain images of eating and digestion as metaphors for hearing and under-
>standing the spoken (or written) word?
Yes.
See, of course, Bakhtin, Rabelais and His World, and more recently:
Michel Jeanneret, A Feast of Words: Banquets and Table Talk in the
Renaissance. University of Chicago Press, 1991 (English translation).
Originally in French, 1987. Very good bibliography.
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Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 10:12:22 -0230
From: payers@kean.ucs.mun.ca
Subject: eating and digestion
Mary Carruther's excellent book *The Book of Memory* deals extensively
with metaphors of rumination, digestion, and regurgitation in medieval
theories of listening and reading. Much of it is applicable to later
periods. It is well worth looking at in any context.
Peter Ayers
Memorial University
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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 93 14:45:40 BST
From: frsfwl <F.W.Langley@french.hull.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: 7.0057 Qs: Jesuits; GUIDE; Quote; Eating; Canadian E-Lists (5/59
Eating & Drinking
Leonard Marsh asks for texts which use eating and drinking metaphors to
describe the intake and digestion of the written word.
The most obvious which springs immediately to mind is Rabelais' Gargantua,
in the Prologue of which the author uses the extended metaphor of the dog
cracking open the bobe to get at the marrow. The author advises readers of
his books to "rompre l'os et sucer la substantifique moelle", that is,
grasp the seriousness which underlies the apparent frivolity.