Feast and Folly: Cuisine, Intoxication, and the Poetics of the Sublime

by Allen S. Weiss

Book Overview

Allen S. Weiss teaches in the Departments of Performance Studies and Cinema Studies at New York University. He is the author and editor of over twenty-five books, including The Aesthetics of Excess and Perverse Desire and the Ambiguous Icon, both published by SUNY Press, and (with Lawrence R. Schehr) French Food: On the Table, On the Page, and in French Culture.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791455181
• ISBN13: 9780791455180
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.5" x 8.8"