La figure du cuisinier dans les nouvelles du Moyen Âge. (French)

Cookbooks and collections of short stories appeared at the same time. Both testify to a new interest in a particularfigure: the cook. By studying how the cook is represented in collections of short stories during the M iddle Ages, further understanding is gained about how a discourse was structured around and through food in works of fiction. The author represented himself both as cook - one who devised a new taste (the short story) - and adviser to the prince. Through the use ofculinary double entendre, the author created a language that spoke to the body and the m ind by centring literary expression on the senses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Livres de cuisine et recueils de nouvelles font leur apparition conjointement. Tous deux témoignent d'un intérêt nouveau pour une figure nouvelle : le cuisinier. À travers Tétude de la représentation du cuisinier dans les recueils de nouvelles du Moyen Âge, il s'agit de comprendre comment s'élabore un discours sur l'alimentation et par l'alimentation dans la fiction, l'auteur se rêvant cuisinier d'une matière nouvelle (la nouvelle) et conseiller du prince. Par le recours au double sens culinaire, il crée une langue qui parle au corps et à l'esprit pour placer le sensible au centre de l'expression littéraire. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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