“Every meal is a lesson learned”. The Victorian saying warns of the risk of punishment that every guest constantly incurs. These sanctions often relate to the way in which one approaches, one selects, one handles the cutlery on the table. Indeed, the construction of the ideal guest, of his way of being with others and of behaving in relation to food, often and above all involves being a "model user" of table service. We will analyze this aspect from the images and speeches posted on the Windsors' Twitter account, the official websites of the Royal Family and the manners manuals they sponsor. Each of these supports manifests an aspect of the subjectivity of the ideal guest as a model-user of the cutlery: territorial, rational and temperate, he is a true political model of individuality.

Tassinari Carlo Andrea (2021). "L'homme-à-fourchette". La construction du convive-modèle à la table de Buckingham Palace. ACTES SÉMIOTIQUES, 124 [10.25965/as.6852].

"L'homme-à-fourchette". La construction du convive-modèle à la table de Buckingham Palace

Tassinari Carlo Andrea
2021-01-01

Abstract

“Every meal is a lesson learned”. The Victorian saying warns of the risk of punishment that every guest constantly incurs. These sanctions often relate to the way in which one approaches, one selects, one handles the cutlery on the table. Indeed, the construction of the ideal guest, of his way of being with others and of behaving in relation to food, often and above all involves being a "model user" of table service. We will analyze this aspect from the images and speeches posted on the Windsors' Twitter account, the official websites of the Royal Family and the manners manuals they sponsor. Each of these supports manifests an aspect of the subjectivity of the ideal guest as a model-user of the cutlery: territorial, rational and temperate, he is a true political model of individuality.
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Tassinari Carlo Andrea (2021). "L'homme-à-fourchette". La construction du convive-modèle à la table de Buckingham Palace. ACTES SÉMIOTIQUES, 124 [10.25965/as.6852].
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