devourment

Chris: I got Baphomet, I got Devourment, Pyrexia, Suffocation.

What makes this crisis more distressful, in "Carrion Comfort," is the gothic conceptualization of food in terms of scavenging, devourment, and cannibalism.

Might its force, its power, its greatest force, its absolute potency be, in essence and always in its last instance, a power of devourment ...?" (page 23).

Take the rip-roaring speed metal guitar on "Graveyard Devourment," or the catchy hooks on "Meet Me in the Graveyard." Each song is ghoulish, hard-rocking and wickedly sly.

Cannibalism, the play's central metaphor, provides a mechanism by which victims and victors debase each other, producing an ethical landscape controlled by variegated forms of devourment and dismemberment.

Croce seems here to abandon his argument regarding the canon as he yields to the pure pleasures of the list; or perhaps he aims to signal the vulnerability of entertainment literature as such to the gluttonous canon's devourment of disenfranchised forms.