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As essential ingredients of the good life, food and literature are intimately connected, and Arabic literature in particular is filled with references to food and wine. In "God's banquet", Geert Jan van Gelder explores the mainstays and byways of classical Arabic literature with wit and aplomb as he traces food's many manifestations in texts ranging from pre-Islamic poetry to the Koran, from the "Thousand and One Night" to social satires. "God's banquet" reveals that food may act as a marker of a multitude of things - time, place, class, status, nationality, ethnicity, religion, gender, character, and, of course, "taste" in several senses. Be it a metaphor, a symbol, a vehicle of allusion and insinuation or of praise and blame, food condenses the mores and social contours of an Arab ethos through the ages and reveals the treasures of this rich heritage.

Food in literature --- Gastronomy in literature --- Arabic literature --- History and criticism --- Arabic literature - History and criticism --- Littérature arabe --- Aliments --- Gastronomie --- Histoire et critique --- Dans la littérature

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This study explores the subtle and complex significance of food and eating in contemporary women's fiction. Sarah Sceats reveals how preoccupations with food, its consumption and the body are central to the work of writers such as Doris Lessing, Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood, Michèle Roberts and Alice Thomas Ellis. Through close analysis of their fiction, Sceats examines the multiple metaphors associated with these themes, making powerful connections between food and love, motherhood, sexual desire, self identity and social behaviour. The activities surrounding food and its consumption (or non-consumption) embrace both the most intimate and the most thoroughly public aspects of our lives. The book draws on psychoanalytical, feminist and sociological theory to engage with a diverse range of issues, including chapters on cannibalism and eating disorders. This lively study demonstrates that feeding and eating are not simply fundamental to life but are inseparable from questions of gender, power and control.

Consumption (Economics) in literature. --- Eating disorders in literature. --- English fiction. --- English fiction - Women authors - History and crit. --- Food habits in literature. --- Food in literature. --- Human body in literature. --- Women and literature. --- English fiction --- Food in literature --- Women and literature --- Consumption (Economics) in literature --- Eating disorders in literature --- Human body in literature --- Food habits in literature --- Gastronomy in literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Literature --- History and criticism --- Women authors --- History --- Gastronomy in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Nutritionary hygiene. Diet --- Fiction --- Thematology --- Carter, Angela --- Lessing, Doris --- Roberts, Michèle --- Ellis, Alice Thomas --- Atwood, Margaret --- ROMAN ANGLAIS --- FEMMES ET LITTERATURE --- CORPS HUMAIN DANS LA LITTERATURE --- NOURRITURE DANS LA LITTERATURE --- FEMMES ECRIVAINS --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- 20E SIECLE --- ANGLETERRE --- Writers --- Food --- Book --- Auteurs. --- Boek. --- Literatuur. --- Thematologie. --- Verhalend proza. --- Voeding. --- Voedingshygiene Dieet. --- Atwood, Margaret. --- Carter, Angela. --- Ellis, Alice Thomas. --- Lessing, Doris. --- Roberts, Michele.

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Boissons--habitudes dans la littérature --- Dinners and dining in literature --- Drinkgewoonten in de literatuur --- Drinking customs in literature --- Eetgewoonten in de literatuur --- Eetmalen in de literatuur --- Food habits in literature --- Genot in de literatuur --- Habitudes alimentaires dans la littérature --- Healths [Drinking of] --- Jouissance dans la littérature --- Literatuur [Voedingsgewoonten in de ] --- Littérature [Habitudes alimentaires dans la ] --- Lust (Gevoel) in de literatuur --- Luxe dans la littérature --- Luxe in de literatuur --- Luxury in literature --- Plaisir dans la littérature --- Pleasure in literature --- Repas dans la littérature --- Sens et sensation dans la littérature --- Senses and sensation in literature --- Voedingsgewoonten in de literatuur --- Zintuigen en gewaarwording in de literatuur --- -Luxury in literature --- -Dinners and dining in literature --- -Aliments dans la littérature --- Luxe dans la littérature --- Repas dans la littérature --- Plaisir dans la littérature --- Food in literature --- Gastronomy in literature --- Latin poetry --- History and criticism --- Rome --- Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic (510-30 B.C.) --- Romi (Empire) --- History --- Poésie latine --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire --- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D. --- Poésie latine --- Banquets --- Boissons --- Habitudes alimentaires --- Luxure --- Plaisir --- Sensualisme --- Thèmes, motifs --- Dans la littérature --- Civilisation --- 30 av. J.-C.-284 --- 284-476 --- 30 av. J.-C.-476 (Empire)