Culinary poetics and edible images in twentieth-century American literature /

"Traces the tradition of avant-garde food experimentation across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries to show how a fixation on the materiality of edible things, expressed through the language of food, became a way for American writers to respond to the culinary, political, and aesthetic ta...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cassarino, Stacie (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
1900-1999
Food habits in literature.
Food in art.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Food > Social aspects.
Habitudes alimentaires dans la littérature.
Aliments dans l'art.
Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Aliments > Aspect social.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
American literature
Food habits in literature
Food in art
Food > Social aspects
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Avant-garde food and art of the ordinary
  • Postwar culinary pop
  • The "recyclable soul" of food
  • The work of art in the age of artful food
  • Epilogue: The last course.

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