Significant Food: Critical Readings to Nourish American Literature by Birkenstein, Jeff
Significant Food: Critical Readings to Nourish American Literature by Birkenstein, Jeff

Significant Food: Critical Readings to Nourish American Literature

Significant Food is a collaborative work of textual analysis and criticism that chews on the role and...
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Author: Jeff Birkenstein
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Significant Food: Critical Readings to Nourish American Literature by Birkenstein, Jeff

Significant Food: Critical Readings to Nourish American Literature

$387.24
Significant Food: Critical Readings to Nourish American Literature by Birkenstein, Jeff

Significant Food: Critical Readings to Nourish American Literature

$387.24
Author: Jeff Birkenstein
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description

Significant Food is a collaborative work of textual analysis and criticism that chews on the role and prominence of food in American literature. The volume offers close readings of many well-known, and some less well-known, examples of American writing, as studied through the food culture sensibilities of a well-stocked cupboard of contributors who offer their analyses for public consumption.

Editors Jeff Birkenstein and Robert C. Hauhart find that literary criticism has focused on the role food plays in literary production to a greater extent than recognized at first glance and that its role has become increasingly common only in the last two decades. Still, while there is critical commentary regarding authors' use of food across the expanse of American literature, there has been a lack of a unifying critical theory to guide these analyses. Birkenstein and Hauhart offer the theory of "significant food"--a method that asks literary critics to evaluate and assess the extent, nature, and role that food plays in literary production. When food and "food moments" are used intensively and "significantly" within the drama, memoir, poem, novel, short story, or other writing, then one can say that it has achieved a status that makes it indispensable to the work at hand.

Author: Jeff Birkenstein
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 07/01/2024
Pages: 310
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.38lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9780820366722

About the Author
Jeff Birkenstein (Editor)
JEFF BIRKENSTEIN is a professor of English at Saint Martin's University. He has published seven coedited collections of essays to date, including Reframing 9/11: Film, Popular Culture and the "War on Terror," American Writers in Exile, Social Justice and American Literature, and Influence in the Russian and American Short Story.

Robert C. Hauhart (Editor)
ROBERT C. HAUHART is a professor in the Department of Society and Social Justice at Saint Martin's University. He is the author or coeditor of ten books and numerous published papers in sociology, law, literature, and education journals. He is the coeditor, with Jeff Birkenstein, of five volumes, including American Writers in Exile, Social Justice and American Literature, and European Writers in Exile.


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