Game motives in Culinary midrash by Alexander Okun and Igor Guberman Cover Image

Игровые мотивы в Кулинарном мидраше Aлександра Oкуня и Игоря Губермана
Game motives in Culinary midrash by Alexander Okun and Igor Guberman

Author(s): Oksana Malysa
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: culinary literature; the semantics cooking; midrash; pun; Alexander Okun;Igor Guberman;

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to issues related to specificity of culinary literature. A particular focus has been put on the book Culinary midrash by Aleksandr Okuń and Igor Guberman in which aesthetic an hedonistic functions outweigh its functionality. The article analyses game motives presented from the perspecitive of overlapping genre conventions, breaking the rules of readers’ expectations, which is illustrated with intertextual threads and puns. It also discusses illustrations by Olga Prilucka which intensify humorous tone of the book.

  • Issue Year: 6/2021
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 115-130
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Russian