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Literature and the Taste of Knowledge
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Pages: 224
Authors: Michael Wood
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-09-29 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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What does literature know? Does it offer us knowledge of its own or does it only interrupt and question other forms of knowledge? This 2005 book seeks to answer
Taste and Knowledge in Early Modern England
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Pages: 281
Authors: Elizabeth L. Swann
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-15 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Pioneering investigation into relationship between physical sense of taste, and taste as a term denoting judgement, in early modern England.
Knowledge, Reason, and Taste
Language: en
Pages: 281
Authors: Paul Guyer
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-12-08 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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Immanuel Kant famously said that he was awoken from his "dogmatic slumbers," and led to question the possibility of metaphysics, by David Hume's doubts about ca
Medieval Tastes
Language: en
Pages: 279
Authors: Massimo Montanari
Categories: Cooking
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-03-24 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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In his new history of food, acclaimed historian Massimo Montanari traces the development of medieval tastes—both culinary and cultural—from raw materials to
A Taste for the Foreign
Language: en
Pages: 246
Authors: Ellen R. Welch
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-03-14 - Publisher: Rutgers University Press

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A Taste for the Foreign examines foreignness as a crucial aesthetic category for the development of prose fiction from Jacques Amyot’s 1547 translation of The