- examines the various narratives of wine and how it intersects with and illuminates current academic and cultural debates about the environment and about interpretation
- presents an in-depth exploration of wine culture and wine production in the USA
- engages with a broad range of writers and thinkers including Roland Barthes, M. H. Abrams, Susan Sontag, Louis Menand, Michael Pollan, Greg Garrard, John Guillory, Amitov Ghosh, Pierre Bordieu, and Barbara Hernstein-Smith
- draws upon extensive interviews conducted by the author with wine maker, writers and critics
- will be of great interest to readers looking to learn more about wine from cultural, literary and philosophical perspectives
Finding Meaning in Wine : A US Blend
Description
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. Against Tasting: The Problems of Blind Tasting and Interpretation
Chapter 2. On Balance: Numbers, Words, and Wine on a Page
Chapter 3. Death of the Winemaker: Are Winemakers Artists?
Chapter 4. On the Supermarket Pastoral and Natural Wine
Chapter 5. Postmodern Viticulture
Chapter 6. The Noble Grapes: The Canon of Grapes and the Literary Canon
Author Description
Michael Sinowitz is a Professor in the Department of English at DePauw University, USA. His previous publications include Sex, Drugs and Bodies in Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin Novels and essays on Graham Greene, Angela Carter, Thomas Berger, and Elmore Leonard.