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2006
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Conference Paper in Proceedings
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99 -
118
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food-related notions in Defoe's work
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Literature
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French
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103-445-922
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ABSTRACT:
This paper is an attempt to analyse food-related notions in Defoe’s work. In Defoe, food is presented primarily as a means of survival measured by money and expressed in pecuniary and aggressive terms at individual and communal level. Concern for a sufficient supply of appropriate foodstuffs and for subsistence characterizes the attitude of his protagonists for whom sustenance takes on vital importance. As food lies at the centre of societal circulation and communication, relevant notions exceed the purely alimentary framework and relate to the emotional and economic fields. In Defoe, it is regulated primarily by quantity and consumption, and mediated by the figures of ingestion, predation and cannibalism. As a result of market relations and rationalistic ideology, the reified body has retained no sense of sapidity. However, the narrative makes use of its ludic dimension to counter abstractness.
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