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Feast of Words: Banquets and Table Talk in the Renaissance

Author: Michael Jeanneret

The banquet gives rise to a special moment when thought and the senses—words and food—enhance each other. Throughout history, the ideal of the symposium has reconciled the angel and the beast in the human, renewing the interdependence between the mouth that speaks and the mouth that eats. Michel Jeanneret's lively book explores the paradigm of the banquet as a guide to significant tendencies in Renaissance Humanist culture and shows how this culture in turn illuminates the tensions between physical and mental pleasures. Ranging widely over French, Italian, German, and Latin texts, Jeanneret not only investigates the meal as a narrative artefact but enquires as well into aspects of sixteenth-century anthropology and aesthetics. 

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Jenneret (French literature, U. of Geneva) explores the paradigm of the banquet as a guide to significant tendencies in Renaissance Humanist culture and shows how this culture in turn illuminates the tensions between physical and mental pleasures--between the mouth that speaks and the mouth that eats. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Part I - Pleasure and the norm 
1. Humanism on holiday
The feast of the gods
The al fresco meal
Conviviality
The head and the stomach
2. Ceremonies and manners
Civility
Manners and Mannerism
The pomp of princes
Officers of the mouth
3. Rules for the appetite
An archaeology of the table
Diet
Medicine v. cookery
Part II - When the fable comes to table
4. Table talk
Convivial speech
A mouth full of words
Philologists or logophiles?
5. Eating the text
Storytelling while eating
'Our after-dinner entertainers'
'My salad and my Muse'
The marrow bone
Metaphors of bibliophagy
6. Classical banquets
Philosophy at meal time
Satire and its cooking
Greedy grammarians
7. Something for every taste
The copious and the varied
Erasmus: feasting on words
Guillaume Bouchet: stuffings
Giordano Bruno: the failed banquet
8. Dog Latin and macronic poetry
Dog Latin, cooks' talk and gibberish
Folengo and the ars macaronica
Muses with greasy hands
'My country is a pumpkin'
9. 'The centre of all books'
'Monarch of ecumenical symposia'
'You only talk about sex'
'Edible syllables and letters'
'I've never seen people talk so much'
Conclusion
Imitatio/Mimesis
Writing and nature
Paradoxical metaphors
Naturalizing the narrative?
Writing in action
Bibliography
Index

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