Literature and Food Studies

‘Gilded Gravel in the Bowl’: Ireland’s cuisine and culinary heritage in the poetry of Seamus Heaney

“…16 While Birkenstein developed this concept for prose fiction, it also applies to poetry, where food and foodways are the main activity or reflective focus of the poem -an 'active presence.' 17 An approach to literary writing through such a 'culinary lens' 18 falls into a paradigm that I identify as gastrocriticism, following Tobin. 19 This is a nascent critical approach emerging from the field of Food Studies, and it can indeed be considered a branch of it.…”

Brazilian cultural markers in translation: A model for a corpus-based glossary

“…Fortunately, this picture has changed over the past few years, with a considerable amount of literature on the culinary arts being recently published. Academic research has resulted in monographs, book chapters and papers (see, for example, Jurafsky 2014;Temmerman and Dubois 2017;Tigner and Carruth 2018), and the connection between food and translation has given rise to scholarly events, such as the International Conference on Food and Culture in Translation (FaCT), held in Italy in 2014 and 2016. Nevertheless, as a result of the long neglect of the culinary domain at academic level (see Capatti and Montanari 1999), few reference materials have been published in the area, at least as far as the Portuguese-English language pair is concerned, and this paucity has had negative consequences for translation studies.…”