Nancy Frazier's I, Lobster PDF

By Nancy Frazier

reflect on the lobster. an unbelievable icon, Mesozoic revenant, surrealist fetish, nightmare decoration, and gastronomic experience, it has interested humans all through historical past. it can be an exaggeration to assert that lobsters are a cultural obsession-but basically a little bit. I, Lobster dissects where of the lobster in human affairs, via background, technology, fable, paintings, literature, track, video clips, and, in fact, delicacies. notwithstanding now not normally appealing to human eyes, lobsters megastar in one of the most beautiful artworks on the planet, the still-lifes painted within the Low nations through the 17th century. And whereas many folks may query their intercourse attraction, lobsters carried an erotic cost for artists of the 20 th century who, encouraged by means of Freud, discovered many possibilities to consider them in that means.

Nancy Frazier explores various elements of our fascination with the lobster, even if in paintings, fantasy, or technological know-how. She describes how the lobster lives in its ordinary atmosphere: its nutrition, intercourse existence, social lifestyles, predators, and common habit. yet I, Lobster is going past what we expect approximately and do to the lobster, to discover how lobsters converse to us as indicators, symbols, metaphors, code phrases, fantasy, lore, and fable. With recipes drawn from such extraordinary lobster connoisseurs as M. F. okay. Fisher, Alice B. Toklas, and Craig Claiborne, I, Lobster is a unusual, captivating, and weirdly attention-grabbing compendium of lobster lore.

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