Object Lessons: Egg

基本信息

Series:Object Lessons

Format:Paperback / softback 168 pages

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Imprint:Bloomsbury Academic USA

ISBN:9781501322853

Published:9 Mar 2017

Weight:154g

Dimensions:123 x 165 x 15 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

《实例研究》系列内容简短，设计精美，探索生活中常见物件的鲜为人知的故事，激励我们重新审视日常生活中我们习以为常的事物。

这本书是关于一种奇怪的东西——奇怪的部分原因是它是我们都有过的东西，我们很多人都吃过。妮可·沃克(Nicole Walker)的《实例研究：蛋类》喜欢将一些看似新奇或令人反感的话题尖锐地并置在一起，因此生殖科学和味觉习惯被放在一起考虑，个人叙述和广泛的自然历史就像蛋黄和蛋白一样挤在一起。将好奇的鸡蛋映射到不同的时间、尺度和空间，鸡蛋集合了这个普通物品令人惊讶的视角——鸡蛋是食物，是艺术品，是隐喻和女权主义的象征，是文化符号。

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

This book is about a strange object-strange in part because it is something that we all have been, and that many of us eat. Nicole Walker's Egg relishes in sharp juxtapositions of seemingly fanciful or repellent topics, so that reproductive science and gustatory habits are considered alongside one another, and personal narrative and broad swaths of natural history jostle, like yolk and albumen. Mapping curious eggs across times, scales, and spaces, Egg draws together surprising perspectives on this common object-egg as food, as art object, as metaphor and feminist symbol, as cultural icon.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

目录

Acknowledgements

Dear Egg

Why We Break the Things We Love the Most

Rotten Eggs

The Egg Came First

Experiment with Eggs by Making a Hollandaise in the Time of Global Warming

How to Cook a Planet

Spoons

The Glue That Holds Us Together

All the Eggs in Israel

All the Eggs in Ukraine

All the Eggs in Korea

All the Eggs in China

Eggs in Utah

Mohawk

So Many Eggs, One Small Basket

Which Came First? Chicken Porn Can Help You Make Up Your Mind About Eggs

Breaking a Few Eggs

Blue Planet, Blue Omelet

Humpty Dumpty, Revised

Do Eggs Bring Skunks?

Would You Eat a Red Speckled Egg?

The Incredible, Edible Egg

What Is a Cloaca?

A Million Year Old Egg

A Lot of Pressure on One Egg

Sidewalk Cooking Eggs

A Science Fair Every Year

The Sex Lives of Fish

The Present Was an Egg Laid by the Past That Had the Future Inside Its Shell-Zora Neale Hurston

Recipe for an Already-Cracked Egg

作者简介

Nicole Walker received her PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Utah and currently teaches at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, USA. Her nonfiction book, Quench Your Thirst With Salt, won the 2011 Zone 3 nonfiction prize and will be published next year. She is also the author of a collection of poems, This Noisy Egg (Barrow Street, 2010). Her work has appeared in the journals Fence, the Iowa Review, Fourth Genre, Shenandoah, New American Writing, the Seneca Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. She has been granted a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry.