Eating otherwise: the philosophy of food in twentieth-century literature
- Submitting institution
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Oxford Brookes University
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 185899257
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1017/9781108242004
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781108416825
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This deeply researched, interdisciplinary monograph synthesises three strands of enquiry: twentieth-century literature, postmodern philosophical conceptions of subjectivity, and gastro-criticism. Its innovation is to reveal the in-depth, multi-layered connections between the alimentary and the ontological, or between what or how one eats and what one is. Christou considers two influential modernist figures, Georges Bataille and Samuel Beckett, alongside two influential postmodernist figures, Paul Auster and Margaret Atwood. Through a sequence of carefully contextualised and philosophically informed close readings, her book theorises for the first time the relationship between modernism and postmodernism from a specifically alimentary perspective.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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