{"product_id":"significant-food-critical-readings-to-nourish-american-literature-9780820366722","title":"Significant Food: Critical Readings to Nourish American Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSignificant Food \u003c\/i\u003eis 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEditors 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 theories 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJeff Birkenstein (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e JEFF BIRKENSTEIN is a professor of English at Saint Martin's University. He has published seven coedited collections of essays to date, including \u003ci\u003eReframing 9\/11: Film, Popular Culture and the \"War on Terror,\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAmerican Writers in Exile, Social Justice and American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e Influence in the Russian and American Short Story.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert C. Hauhart (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eAmerican Writers in Exile, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eSocial Justice and American Literature, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEuropean Writers in Exile.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50692358734098,"sku":"9780820366722","price":126.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e61f90fb-3072-423f-a07f-ef4f288947e5.jpg?v=1734122269","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/significant-food-critical-readings-to-nourish-american-literature-9780820366722","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}