Number 45, June 2021

                                           

Feature Topic Food: Sacrificial, Spiritual, and Secular

Guest Editors Chih-Hsin Lin and Yi-Hsin Hsu

 

Introduction: Food with Many Layers 

Chih-Hsin Lin

Chih-Hsin Lin

  • Research Articles
 

Metaphors of Nutrition in Inferno I: Dante’s Veltro and the Philosophical Appetite

David Ruzicka

David Ruzicka

Old Pies, Stray Flies, and Possibly Poisonous Parsley in the Cook’s Prologue and Tale

Denise Ming-yueh Wang

Denise Ming-yueh Wang

Sicut Apis Operosa: Honey, Bees, and Chastity in the Early Medieval World

Hiu Ki Chan

Hiu Ki Chan

Eucharist and Meal: Christian Sacraments as the Fulfillment of Human Experience

Emanuele Angiola

Emanuele Angiola
  • Perspectives
 

Luxury Dining in the Middle Ages

Paul Freedman

Paul Freedman

Ancient Rome as Melting Pot: Cooking Goes Global

Emily Gowers

Emily Gowers

Feature Topic 

“Technically Yours”: Technicity, Mediality, and the Stakes of Experience (III)

**Earlier installments of this feature topic appeared in June 2020 and December 2020.

 
  • Research Article
 

Foucault’s Milieu

Steven DeCaroli

Steven DeCaroli

 General Topics

 

Between “East” and “West”: Goethe’s World Literature, the Question of Nation, and the Postnational in Yoko Tawada’s Novel Memoirs of a Polar Bear

Monika Leipelt-Tsai

Monika Leipelt-Tsai

Echo and Resonance in Farewell My Concubine and Happy Together

Yuh-yi Tan

 Yuh-yi Tan