poem “Dead Souls”. More specifically, the publication defines these images in
terms of evaluative criteria according to the dish properties given in form of sensations, performed actions, and opinions expressed by the subject of evaluation. At the same time, the dishes depicted in the novel do more than describe
some subjective taste experiences, or Russian cooking in the specified period of
time. It is also a panegyric to the Russian appetite and stomach, symbolically
reinterpreted – in addition to their physical interpretation – as a symbolic equivalent of the endless possibilities for transforming the world by the “gentlemen of
the middling sort”.
This article focuses on the recurring food imagery in the Gogol’s
poem “Dead Souls”. More specifically, the publication defines these images in
terms of evaluative criteria according to the dish properties given in form of sensations, performed actions, and opinions expressed by the subject of evaluation. At the same time, the dishes depicted in the novel do more than describe
some subjective taste experiences, or Russian cooking in the specified period of
time. It is also a panegyric to the Russian appetite and stomach, symbolically
reinterpreted – in addition to their physical interpretation – as a symbolic equivalent of the endless possibilities for transforming the world by the “gentlemen of
the middling sort”.
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Dishes in the Gogol’s Poem “Dead Souls”: <i>...fortitude of the Russian stomach</i> С. 302–314. DOI 10.25205/2307-1737-2020-2-302-314