The Joys of Excess
Title | The Joys of Excess PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Pepys |
Publisher | |
Pages | 83 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Diarists |
ISBN | 9780241960806 |
The Joys of Excess
Title | The Joys of Excess PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Pepys |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 77 |
Release | 2011-04-07 |
Genre | Cooking |
ISBN | 0141966033 |
As well as being the most celebrated diarist of all time, Samuel Pepys was also a hearty drinker, eater and connoisseur of epicurean delights, who indulged in every pleasure seventeenth-century London had to offer. Whether he is feasting on barrels of oysters, braces of carps, larks' tongues and copious amounts of wine, merrymaking in taverns until the early hours, attending formal dinners with lords and ladies or entertaining guests at home with his young wife, these irresistible selections from Pepys's diaries provide a frank, high-spirited and vivid picture of the joys of over-indulgence - and the side-effects afterwards.
... The Magic Skin
Title | ... The Magic Skin PDF eBook |
Author | Honoré de Balzac |
Publisher | |
Pages | 394 |
Release | 1894 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Excess and Embodiment in Contemporary Women's Writing
Title | Excess and Embodiment in Contemporary Women's Writing PDF eBook |
Author | Zeynep Zeren Atayurt |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 211 |
Release | 2011-08-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3838259785 |
The 'obese' female body has often been portrayed as the 'other' to the slender body. However, this process of 'othering', or viewing as different, has created a repressive discourse, where 'excess' has increasingly come to be studied as a 'physical abnormality' or a signifier of a 'personality defect' in contemporary Western society. This book engages with the multifarious re-imaginings of the 'excessive' embodiment in contemporary women's writing, drawing specifically on the construction of this form of embodiment in the works of Fay Weldon, Jeanette Winterson, Margaret Atwood, Claude Tardat, and Judith Moore, whose texts offer a distinct literary response to the rigidly homogeneous and limiting representations of fatness, while prompting heterogeneous approaches to reading the 'excessive' female embodiment.
The Works of Balzac
Title | The Works of Balzac PDF eBook |
Author | Honoré de Balzac |
Publisher | |
Pages | 438 |
Release | 1896 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The magic skin. The hidden masterpiece
Title | The magic skin. The hidden masterpiece PDF eBook |
Author | Honoré de Balzac |
Publisher | |
Pages | 436 |
Release | 1899 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Comedy of Human Life
Title | Comedy of Human Life PDF eBook |
Author | Honoré de Balzac |
Publisher | |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 1894 |
Genre | |
ISBN |