9781501307447: Bread: Object Lessons
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ISBN 10: 1501307444 ISBN 13: 9781501307447
Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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Explores bread as both everyday object and as an object that has been invested throughout history with symbolic power and an astonishing variety of social, cultural and figural meanings.

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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).

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Bread is an object that 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 culture, Bread tells the story of how this ancient and everyday object serves as a symbol for both social communion and social exclusion.

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Verlag
Bloomsbury Academic
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1501307444
ISBN 13 
9781501307447
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Anzahl der Seiten
168
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