De gustibo non est disputandum – there is no disputing about taste, as the saying claims. On the contrary.
The course explores the manifold representations of the experience of tasting food in English literature since the early modern period. While the majority of accounts of aesthetic history neglect the gustatory aspect of taste the course aims at a liiterary history of tste in all its full-bodied flavor with its epistemological and moral implications. What the writers, such as Milton, Swift, Boswell, Beeton or Woolf, negociate is the creative power of taste as a trope for aesthetic judgement and ist essential role in generating our sense of self.
The Lektürekurs will focus on „gusto“ in terms oft he writing of cookbooks as a cultural arena oft he practice of aesthetics, i.e. beyond our hopes merely to learn how to get the best boeuf bourguignonne done for our next dinner party.
Please register for the course until the end of March: stephan.lieske@rz.hu-berlin.de |
