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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Main Author: Cassarino, Stacie (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2018]
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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"--
Physical Description:xiii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-226) and index.
ISBN:9780814213704
0814213707