Document Type
Article
Rights
Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence
Disciplines
6. HUMANITIES, General literature studies, Literary theory
Abstract
In his essay 'A Winter Feast', literature professor Paul Schmidt unveils the layers of meaning that Pushkin wove into the description of a New Year’s feast in Eugene Onegin. But unusually, Schmidt continues his essay making the jump from literary criticism to food studies by musing on the various items on the menu without reference to Onegin, but rather to the cultural and philosophical context of food, bringing in such varied references as Brillat-Savarin and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Studying food writing through the lens of literary criticism allows us to penetrate the social and symbolic meanings of food more deeply, while also linking food writing, and thereby food studies, with the fields of culture and literature.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21427/trqp-fq65
Recommended Citation
Klitzing, A. (2018). ‘Pineapple Poetry’- Studying Literature through a Food Studies Lens. Graduate Journal of Food Studies, 5 (2). Available at: https://gradfoodstudies.org/2018/12/11/pineapple-poetry/ doi:10.21427/trqp-fq65
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Publication Details
This article appeared in the Graduate Journal of Food Studies 5(2).