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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-226) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780814213704 0814213707 |