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Curating Culinary Culture: The Rhetorical Function of Cookbooks and Their Paratexts

Autor

  • Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
  • Robert Westerfelhaus the College of Charleston, South Carolina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29107/rr2024.3.7

Słowa kluczowe:

książki kucharskie, parateksty, „wbudowany dyskurs” przepisu, kultura kulinarna, autentyczność, tradycja ustna

Abstrakt

Książki kucharskie zazwyczaj nie są jedynie zbiorami przepisów, często bowiem przedstawiają wiele dodatkowych informacji kulturowych i historycznych. Stanowią sposób dzielenia się ideami i wspomnieniami, w tym celu sięgają po szeroko rozumiane chwyty retoryczne. Również sam przepis nie jest li tylko instrukcją sporządzania dania, lecz także specyficznym tekstem osadzonym w kształtujących go kontekstach kulturowych, społecznych i historycznych. Przepisy funkcjonują zatem jako swego rodzaju narzędzia retoryczne oddające charakter/tożsamość określonej zbiorowości. Książki kucharskie tworzą wielopoziomową przestrzeń informacyjną, angażując czytelników zarówno poprzez główny tekst, jak i elementy towarzyszące, nazywane przez Gérarda Genette’a paratekstami. Niniejszy artykuł analizuje funkcję retoryczną bestsellerowej książki kucharskiej Emily Meggett, Gullah Geechee Home Cooking, a zwłaszcza przepisu na Fried Okra oraz towarzyszących mu paratekstów. Omówienie tych elementów pogłębia znajomość kulturowych kontekstów odbiorców, dla których napisana została książka kucharska.

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Biogram autora

  • Robert Westerfelhaus - the College of Charleston, South Carolina

    Robert Westerfelhaus, UMCS, Distinguished Chair of Humanities/Fulbright Fellow 2021-2022 & Professor Emeritus in the Department of Communication at the College of Charleston, South Carolina

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Niewiadomska-Flis, Urszula, and Robert Westerfelhaus. 2024. “Curating Culinary Culture: The Rhetorical Function of Cookbooks and Their Paratexts”. Res Rhetorica 11 (3): 119-44. https://doi.org/10.29107/rr2024.3.7.