Feeding Culture: The Pleasures and Perils of Appetite

The Editors: Wojciech H. Kalaga is Professor of Literary Theory and English Literature at the University of Silesia, Poland, Chair of the Department of Literary and Cultural Theory and Director of the Institute of British and American Culture and Literature. He has published widely on literary and cultural theory and is also editor-in-chief of the literary journal Er(r)go.Tadeusz Rachwał is Professor of English Literature at the Academy of Technical and Human Sciences in Bielsko, Poland, where he is also Chair of the Department of Anglophone Literatures. He has published extensively on labour and leisure in the 19th century.

• Contents: Tadeusz Rachwał : Food and Labour. Eating Epistemology– Liliana Barakońska: Of Foods and Books – David Schauffler: The Dialectic of Gluttony, or The Empty Stomach of Insatiable Reason – Tomasz Kalaga: Food for Thought: A Textual Feast – Leszek Drong: Flesh Made Spirit(s): Tips on How to Liquidate Oneself – Johan van Wyk: Spirits and the Discourse of Reason – Bradley Kadel: The Pub and the Irish Nation – Katarzyna Ancuta: Meat Hooks, Chain Saws and the Meataphysics of Horror – John Watters: The Manners of Mass Murder: Eating Fear – Carmen Concilio: Tran Anh Hung’s L’odeur de la papaye verte and Romesh Gunesekera’s Reef: Two Stories of Emancipation Through the Art of Cooking Between Vietnam and Sri Lanka – John Simons: Vegetarianism and Citizenship: Some Thoughts on Britain Today – Aleksandra Podgórniak: Capirotada vs. Chicken Curry: Versions of Alchemical Realism in Ethnic American Fiction – Jacek Mydla: The Meat, the Sauce, the Ceremony: Macbeth’s Film Adaptations and Symbolic Metabolism – Rafał Borysławski: Sex, Food and Magic: Digestion and Fertility in the Exeter Book Riddles – Alice Weinreb: Taste No Evil: The Dangers of the Mouth In Ancient Rome.