Adopting a multidisciplinary approach called gastro-criticism that draws upon anthropology, sociology, semiotics, history, and literary studies, Professor Ronald Tobin, Associate Vice Chancellor, UC Santa Barbara, elucidates the role of food, service, spectacle, diet, ingestion, and digestion in a number of works drawn from a variety of national literatures. He concludes with specific reference to the seventeenth-century French comic dramatist Molière and his preoccupations with sexuality and power, pretense and pretentiousness, trickery and truth, self and society. [6/2009] [Humanities] [Show ID: 16255]
Good piece. But Monsieur Tobin speaks too fast. Next time please include the CC (closed caption). Very helpful for especially non-native English speakers.
Merci beaucoup
Dr John
Kingdom of Thailand
carsanookdotcom 1 year ago
its food for thought.... not thought for food. haha
hayleybayy 2 years ago