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Shershow, Scott Cutler

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

Sinopsis

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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Editorial
Bloomsbury Academic
Año de publicación
2016
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1501307444
ISBN 13 
9781501307447
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Número de páginas
168
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