2007
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0730.2007.00892.x
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Abstract: As recent cultural‐historical studies have demonstrated, a careful analysis of food preparation and consumption can reveal much about a specific culture or society. Moreover, as this paper argues, a focus on a protagonist's attitude toward and reflection of foodstuff and meals can shed important light on his/her intellectual, cultural, and spiritual development. To test this thesis, this paper investigates how Parzival in Wolfram von Eschenbach's eponymous romance operates with food, how he performs in courtly… Show more

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“…La ingesta de alimentos tiene también un sentido distinto que el de satisfacer el hambre: como la conversación, la mesa requiere de un aprendizaje social y espiritual, que revela los avances en su educación con Gurnemanz. Comer es un acto social esencial y el comportamiento cortesano distancia a los nobles del salvajismo y la villanía 84 . El hambre, como el deseo sexual, es un deseo físico; el dominio de sí debe aprenderse y practicarse.…”
Section: Adulescentia Y Bildungsroman: La Literatura Como Espejo Formativounclassified
“…La ingesta de alimentos tiene también un sentido distinto que el de satisfacer el hambre: como la conversación, la mesa requiere de un aprendizaje social y espiritual, que revela los avances en su educación con Gurnemanz. Comer es un acto social esencial y el comportamiento cortesano distancia a los nobles del salvajismo y la villanía 84 . El hambre, como el deseo sexual, es un deseo físico; el dominio de sí debe aprenderse y practicarse.…”
Section: Adulescentia Y Bildungsroman: La Literatura Como Espejo Formativounclassified
“…The semiotic representations of food and gastronomy are socially and culturally embedded within contemporary life and create consensus constructs that underpin the M&S campaign, this embedding draws from the historical tradition of food and hospitality (O'Connor, 2005; O'Gorman, 2007; Claseen, 2007). Although the concept of hospitality and food is a significant element of culture, the concept of food needs to be contextualised within the time in which it is being judged, the semiotic representations of food on the M&S advertisement, as a form of gastronomy, represents a refuge from fast food culture and the instantaneous nature of post‐modern society (Delind, 2006), even though it is marketing a form of fast food.…”
Section: Embedding the Practice Of Gastronomymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The food industry uses a set of semiotic codes that are part of the semiotics of food (Brunori, 2007), these codes are reinforced by the ritualistic nature of food production and service, it is this ritualistic element that elevates M&S's visual representations to that of the extraordinary (see Figure 5). Images of food utilised by M&S (see Figures 2‐5) represent the iconic (Claseen, 2007) or mythical (see Magee, 2007) embedding of food within contemporary society, this myth defines food as a refuge or experience that acts as a counterbalance to the world of fast food and the uncertainty of post‐modern society (Delind, 2006). The food industry through various marketing initiatives adopts these codes or language to create a semiotic liminal consumption space, in which we are released from our normal social constraints; the images used by M&S offer a representation of food that is removed from our normal experiences.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the past the court served as the center of all social and cultural activities, best expressed by the hospitality offered to everyone who arrived there (35)(36)(37)(38)(39)(40). In the present, by contrast, no one thinks of being generous, providing the new guests with refreshment and food (41), as was powerfully illustrated by Wolfram von Eschenbach in his Parzival (ca 1205).…”
Section: IIImentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the present, by contrast, no one thinks of being generous, providing the new guests with refreshment and food (41), as was powerfully illustrated by Wolfram von Eschenbach in his Parzival (ca 1205). 38 Responding to an inquiry about how to perform in the current cultural climate, the narrator replies that the new norm would be to look upwards only and to fight for the highest social position in utter disregard of all ethical and moral standards. Realizing the radical change in the social structure, the poet underlines that only those who possess material wealth would be regarded with respect: ''allez daz diue welt umb giet, ⁄ daz richt sich nach dem obern lauff'' (48-49; Everyone in this world submits to the upper class).…”
Section: IIImentioning
confidence: 99%