"Marin's admiration (in both seventeenth-century senses) for the
word made flesh, and hence the word made power, is what makes this
book both fascinating and disturbing." -- Times Literary Supplement
A wicked queen orders the palace cook to kill her grandchildren
and serve them up for dinner -- "in a sauce Robert." But as any
good cook knows, this sauce is properly served with game, not
domestic animals. Does the ogress transgress? Perhaps, but the cook
breaks the rules as well. Deceiving his mistress, he rescues the
children and instead serves goat and lamb.
In this provocative volume, Louis Marin treats a subject to
which some of the most exciting literary criticism has been
devoted: the body as represented in text and image. From fairy
tales to biblical narrative, from the divine body in the eucharist
to the body of Louis XIV as described in his physicians' journals,
Marin focuses on the peculiar relationship between verbal and oral
functions -- speaking and eating, boasting and gluttony, lying and
cannibalism. Drawing on the methodologies of semiology, philosophy
of language, and literary and art criticism, Marin explores works
by Rabelais, La Fontaine, Perrault, and the Logic of Port-Royal.
Throughout, he is concerned with the conceptualization of desire
and pleasure, justice and force, natural violence and political
power -- and questions their ideological as well as their symbolic
bases.
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