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Gourmands and Gluttons - The Rhetoric of Food Excess (Hardcover, New edition)
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Gourmands and Gluttons - The Rhetoric of Food Excess (Hardcover, New edition)
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From "supersizing it" to hoarding, we are living in an age of
excess. Whether it is cars or housing, American culture is being
driven by the old adage that "bigger is better". Yet, although we
often overlook it, nowhere is this rhetoric of excess more on
display than within our food discourses. While many would argue
that the gourmand vanished from society at the end of the 19th
century, this book contends that both the gourmand and its
counterpart, the glutton, have moved beyond their historic roots to
become cultural personae found throughout contemporary media and
popular culture. Utilizing texts ranging from the Slow Food
Movement to "food porn" as a cornucopia of visual fantasies, this
book maintains that today the gourmand and the glutton have come to
epitomize a rhetoric of excess far beyond the realm of food.
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