ABSTRACT

Seamus Heaney’s poetry is rich in detail about agricultural and food practices in his native Northern Ireland from the 1950s onwards, such as cattle-trading, butter-churning, eel-fishing, blackberry-picking or home-baking. Often studied from an ecocritical perspective, the abundance of agricultural and culinary scenes in Heaney’s work makes a gastrocritical focus on food and foodways suitable. Food has been recognized as a highly condensed social fact, and writers have long tapped into its multi-layered meanings to illuminate socio-cultural circumstances, making literature a valuable ethnographic source. A gastrocritical reading of Heaney’s work from 1966 to 2010, drawing on Rozin’s Structure of Cuisine, shows that the foodstuffs and culinary techniques featured in the poetry reflect historic and contemporary Irish cuisine and culture as explained by food-historical and folkloristic research, giving his work a particularly Irish cultural signature. In turn, Heaney’s poetic sensibilities and language craft may contribute to our verstehen of Ireland’s culinary heritage.

摘要

西默斯·希尼 (Seamus Heaney) 的诗歌详细介绍了 1950 年代以来他的家乡北爱尔兰的农业和食品实践，例如牛交易、黄油搅拌、鳗鱼捕捞、黑莓采摘或家庭烘焙。通常从生态批判的角度进行研究，希尼作品中丰富的农业和烹饪场景使得对食物和饮食方式的胃病关注是合适的。食物被认为是一种高度浓缩的社会事实，作家们长期以来一直利用它的多层次含义来阐明社会文化环境，使文学成为宝贵的民族志来源。对希尼从 1966 年到 2010 年的作品的胃部批判性阅读，借鉴了罗津的烹饪结构，表明诗歌中的食物和烹饪技术反映了历史和当代爱尔兰美食和文化，正如食物历史和民俗研究所解释的那样，使他的作品具有特别的爱尔兰文化特征。反过来，希尼的诗意情感和语言技巧可能有助于我们诠释社会学爱尔兰的烹饪遗产。