2017 - Ledizioni
E-book
Digital Version
A world of nourishment : reflections on food in Indian culture
352 p.
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Informations
ISBN: 9788867055432
COLLECTION
VEDETTES-MATIÈRE
- Indic literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses
- Food in literature -- Congresses
- Food habits in literature -- Congresses
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Dans ce volume
- Preface, and a homage to Professor Giuliano Boccali
- Some marginal linguistic notes about Ṛgveda 1.187, annastuti
- Praājpati is hungry : how can the concept of eating be used in philosophy?
- What the king ate? : on the ambivalence towards eating meat during the second half of the 1st millennium BCE.
- Magical kitchens or hunting? : how to survive in the epic jungle
- Notes on fast in India
- Tasting, feasting and chasing the great enemy hunger – some attitudes and habits as reflected in Old Tamil Sangam works
- The semantics of food in old Tamil poetry
- From fast to feast : the aśana discourse of the Vidūṣaka in Kerala's traditional Sanskrit theatre
- A suitable girl : Daṇḍin and a meal on the banks of the Kāverī
- What to take on a wild goose chase : the journeys of two feathered messengers in Sanskrit dūtakāvya
- When poetry is ripe : an overview of the theory of kāvyapāka
- Betel chewing in kāvya literature and Indian art.
- The food of gods – naivedya/nirmālya in the Pāñcarātrika sources
- Impregnating food : the miraculous conception motif in Indian narratives
- Let the feast go on : Food and eating on the battlefield of Laṅkā
- Eating and fasting to liberate the Mind : some remarks on the theme of food in Keśavdās's Vijñānagītā
- Visual representations of aphrodisiacs in India from the 20th to the 10th century CE.
- Governing the body and the state : Akbar's vegetarianism through the lenses of coeval literary sources
- With Bharatendu Harishchandra through the food-bazaar of Andher Nagarī
- The theme of hunger in Kafan, a short story by Prem Chand
- The food motif in the writings of Hindi women writers
- Present-day Annapurnas : food in Hindi life writings by women
- Food and fasting : Representing the traditional role of women in Hindi cinema
- Fowl-cutlets and mutton singāḍās : Intercultural food and cuisine/s in Bengali detective fiction
- Meat & flesh : A reading of Anita Desai's Fasting, Feasting
- A man is what he eats, and what he doesn't : on the use of traditional food culture in Anita Desai's Fasting, Feasting and Amitav Ghosh's The Glass Palace
- Mourning for the dead, feeding the living : mausar khānā
