Published: 2021-06-27

Game motives in Culinary midrash by Alexander Okun and Igor Guberman

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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.

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Małysa, Oksana. 2021. “Game Motives in Culinary Midrash by Alexander Okun and Igor Guberman”. Iudaica Russica, no. 1(6) (June):115-30. https://doi.org/10.31261/IR.2021.06.05.

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No. 1(6) (2021)
Published: 2021-06-27


ISSN: 2657-4861
eISSN: 2657-8352
Ikona DOI 10.31261/IR

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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