Cooking in Seamus Heany's 'Milk Factory' and 'The Butter-print:' a Gastrocritical Reading

سروه, محمود

doi:10.21608/sjam.2021.112510.1410

Cooking in Seamus Heany's 'Milk Factory' and 'The Butter-print:' a Gastrocritical Reading

نوع المستند : المقالة الأصلية

المؤلف

محمود سروه

کلية الآداب جامعة الوادي الجديد

10.21608/sjam.2021.112510.1410

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Cooking in Seamus Heany's 'Milk Factory' and 'The Butter-print:' a Gastrocritical Reading
Abstract:
The Noble Prize winning poet Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) is known for his recalling of his Irish homeland in his poetry. He depicts his childhood countryside in County Derry. In particular, he focuses on anthropologic landscapes, farming, cooking and eating scenes. This is due to spending his childhood in a farm where these kinds of scenes were common. This paper proposes a gastrocritical reading of Seamus Heaney's Milk Factory and The Butter-print, giving a deep insight in the cooking's aspects. Gastrocriticism is a new critical approach to literature. It investigates the multiple connotations of food in cultural contexts in literary texts. Otherwise, it discovers the relationship between food and culture through reading a literary text. It connects gastronomy to literary criticism. Generally speaking, cooking is considered one of the aspects that connects food and culture; hence, it is considered one of the aspects of gastronomy. For this reason, when cooking is depicted in a literary text, gastrocritical reading will be possible. This study will try to prove that both poems depict cooking and can be read gastrocritically.

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