Scott Cutler Shershow

Bread

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Bread is an object that, throughout the myriad details of its manufacture and social existence, is always in process of becoming something else: flower to grain, grain to dough, dough to loaf, loaf to crumb. Bread is also often a figure or vehicle of social cohesion: from the homely image of breaking bread together to the mysteries of the Eucharist. But bread also commonly figures in social conflict -- sometimes literally, in the bread riots that punctuate European history, and sometimes figuratively, in the ways bread operates as ethnic, religious or class signifier. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from the scriptures to modern pop cult… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-5013-0744-7
EAN: 9781501307447
Produktnummer: 18382141
Verlag: Bloomsbury
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 168 S.
Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
Masse: H16.7 cm x B12.1 cm x D1.7 cm 155 g
Abbildungen: 8 b/w illustrations
Gewicht: 155

Über den Autor

Scott Cutler Shershow is Professor of English at University of California, Davis, USA. He is the author of five books, including Deconstructing Dignity: A Critique of the Right-to-Die Debate (2014).