Background
Kolb, Jocelyne was born on February 21, 1951 in Urbana, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Philip and Dorothy Kolb.
( Between the political revolutions of 1789 and 1848 no o...)
Between the political revolutions of 1789 and 1848 no other subject so directly challenged the notion of "good taste" in literature as food. To be "in good taste," a work of the high style excluded references to literal taste; culinary allusions in tragedy and lyric poetry therefore represented an ironic attack on literary decorum and a liberation from the constraints of figurative taste. In The Ambiguity of Taste, Jocelyne Kolb attempts to define changes in genre and metaphorical usage by undertaking close readings of six authors. She looks first at Molière and Fielding, whose culinary allusions herald poetic revolution but whose works do not themselves escape the limits of a neoclassical aesthetic. Byron and Heine, known as renegades, are treated in separate chapters and in the greatest detail. The penultimate chapter joins Goethe and Hugo as champions of poetic freedom, and in the final chapter Kolb briefly considers Thomas Mann and Proust, whose works display the gains of poetic revolution. This book will be savored by students of comparative literature and European Romanticism. Its accessible style will tempt nonspecialists and food enthusiasts as well. Jocelyne Kolb is Professor of German Studies, Smith College. This book was the winner of the 1995 American Conference on Romanticism Book Prize.
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Kolb, Jocelyne was born on February 21, 1951 in Urbana, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Philip and Dorothy Kolb.
Bachelor, Smith College, 1972. Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1979.
Instructor Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, 1975—1976. Visiting instructor Amherst (Massachusetts) College, 1976—1978. Assistant professor Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1979—1987.
Instructor Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1977—1979, associate professor, 1988—1994, professor German Studies department, since 1994.
( Between the political revolutions of 1789 and 1848 no o...)
Member of Modern Language Association, E.T.A. Hoffmann Gesellschaft, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Goethe Society N. American, North America Heine Society (vice president 2001-2005, president since 2006), International Conference Romanticism (member advisory board 2001-2004, book award 1995), American Association Teachers German.
Married Konrad Kenkel, June 26, 1981. 1 child Jonathan Kenkel.