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Culinary poetics and edible images in twentieth-century American literature / Stacie Cassarino.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cassarino, Stacie, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Food habits in literature.
- Food in art.
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Avant-garde (Aesthetics).
- Food--Social aspects.
- Food.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- "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 tastes of the nation"-- Provided by publisher.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-226) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780814213704
- 0814213707
- OCLC:
- 1002688863
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