Author: Nicola Humble
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857854755
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Why are so many literary texts preoccupied with food? The Literature of Food explores this question by looking at the continually shifting relationship between two sorts of foods: the real and the imagined. Focusing particularly on Britain and North America from the early 19th century to the present, it covers a wide range of issues including the politics of food, food as performance, and its intersections with gender, class, fear and disgust. Combining the insights of food studies and literary analysis, Nicola Humble considers the multifarious ways in which food both works and plays within texts, and the variety of functions-ideological, mimetic, symbolic, structural, affective-which it serves. Carefully designed and structured for use on the growing number of literature of food courses, it examines the food of modernism, post-modernism, the realist novel and children's literature, and asks what happens when we treat cook books as literary texts. From food memoirs to the changing role of the servant, experimental cook books to the cannibalistic fears in infant picture books, The Literature of Food demonstrates that food is always richer and stranger than we think.
The Literature of Food
Author: Nicola Humble
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857854755
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Why are so many literary texts preoccupied with food? The Literature of Food explores this question by looking at the continually shifting relationship between two sorts of foods: the real and the imagined. Focusing particularly on Britain and North America from the early 19th century to the present, it covers a wide range of issues including the politics of food, food as performance, and its intersections with gender, class, fear and disgust. Combining the insights of food studies and literary analysis, Nicola Humble considers the multifarious ways in which food both works and plays within texts, and the variety of functions-ideological, mimetic, symbolic, structural, affective-which it serves. Carefully designed and structured for use on the growing number of literature of food courses, it examines the food of modernism, post-modernism, the realist novel and children's literature, and asks what happens when we treat cook books as literary texts. From food memoirs to the changing role of the servant, experimental cook books to the cannibalistic fears in infant picture books, The Literature of Food demonstrates that food is always richer and stranger than we think.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857854755
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Why are so many literary texts preoccupied with food? The Literature of Food explores this question by looking at the continually shifting relationship between two sorts of foods: the real and the imagined. Focusing particularly on Britain and North America from the early 19th century to the present, it covers a wide range of issues including the politics of food, food as performance, and its intersections with gender, class, fear and disgust. Combining the insights of food studies and literary analysis, Nicola Humble considers the multifarious ways in which food both works and plays within texts, and the variety of functions-ideological, mimetic, symbolic, structural, affective-which it serves. Carefully designed and structured for use on the growing number of literature of food courses, it examines the food of modernism, post-modernism, the realist novel and children's literature, and asks what happens when we treat cook books as literary texts. From food memoirs to the changing role of the servant, experimental cook books to the cannibalistic fears in infant picture books, The Literature of Food demonstrates that food is always richer and stranger than we think.
Wife in the North
Author: Judith O'Reilly
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 0786749482
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
When Judith O'Reilly, a successful journalist and mother of three, agreed to leave London for a remote northern outpost, she made a deal with her husband that the move was a test-run to weigh the benefits of country living. In the rugged landscape of Northumberland County, O'Reilly swapped her high heels for rubber boots and life-long friends for cows, sheep, and strange neighbors. In this tremendously funny and acutely observed memoir, O'Reilly must navigate the challenges and rewards of motherhood, marriage, and family as she searches for her own true north in an alien landscape. Her intrepid foray into the unknown is at once a hilarious, fish-out-of-water story and a poignant reflection on the modern woman's dilemma of striking the right balance between career and family.
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 0786749482
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
When Judith O'Reilly, a successful journalist and mother of three, agreed to leave London for a remote northern outpost, she made a deal with her husband that the move was a test-run to weigh the benefits of country living. In the rugged landscape of Northumberland County, O'Reilly swapped her high heels for rubber boots and life-long friends for cows, sheep, and strange neighbors. In this tremendously funny and acutely observed memoir, O'Reilly must navigate the challenges and rewards of motherhood, marriage, and family as she searches for her own true north in an alien landscape. Her intrepid foray into the unknown is at once a hilarious, fish-out-of-water story and a poignant reflection on the modern woman's dilemma of striking the right balance between career and family.
Vesuvius Poovius
Author: Kes Gray
Publisher: Hachette Children's
ISBN: 9780340981214
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Poo is a forbiddenus wordus. Vesuvius, the Roman inventor, has been trying to solve the pongy problem for many years - with no luck. But one night he is struck by inspiration... The pongy classic, now with a new jacket.
Publisher: Hachette Children's
ISBN: 9780340981214
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Poo is a forbiddenus wordus. Vesuvius, the Roman inventor, has been trying to solve the pongy problem for many years - with no luck. But one night he is struck by inspiration... The pongy classic, now with a new jacket.
The Bulletin
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Category : Sydney (N.S.W.)
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Sydney (N.S.W.)
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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The Children's Buyer's Guide
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Category : Booksellers and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Booksellers and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Daisy and the Trouble with Maggots
Author: Kes Gray
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446432564
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Daisy is incredibly excited when her uncle offers to take her on a fishing trip. There's so much new stuff to learn! Like how water witches turn fishermen into dog poos, why supermarkets don't stock picknicky things like lemonade and chicken wings on the same shelf, and why it's a really, really bad idea to use wriggly tiggly maggots as catapult amunition...
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446432564
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Daisy is incredibly excited when her uncle offers to take her on a fishing trip. There's so much new stuff to learn! Like how water witches turn fishermen into dog poos, why supermarkets don't stock picknicky things like lemonade and chicken wings on the same shelf, and why it's a really, really bad idea to use wriggly tiggly maggots as catapult amunition...
Daisy and the Trouble with Zoos
Author: Kes Gray
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1407076833
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
It's Daisy's birthday and she's having a special birthday treat! Mum has invited her best friends, Gabby and Dylan, on a trip to the zoo - and, best of all, Mum has arranged for Daisy to go into the actual penguin cage with the actual zoo keeper and FEED actual penguins! REAL ACTUAL PENGUINS! With actual beaks and everything!! Trouble is, Daisy doesn't just feed the penguins, she 'adopts' one to take home and everything . . .
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1407076833
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
It's Daisy's birthday and she's having a special birthday treat! Mum has invited her best friends, Gabby and Dylan, on a trip to the zoo - and, best of all, Mum has arranged for Daisy to go into the actual penguin cage with the actual zoo keeper and FEED actual penguins! REAL ACTUAL PENGUINS! With actual beaks and everything!! Trouble is, Daisy doesn't just feed the penguins, she 'adopts' one to take home and everything . . .
Kaapse bibliotekaris
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Issues for Nov. 1957- include section: Accessions. Aanwinste, Sept. 1957-
Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Issues for Nov. 1957- include section: Accessions. Aanwinste, Sept. 1957-
Daisy and the Trouble with Coconuts
Author: Kes Gray
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448120403
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
'The trouble with coconuts is they are the worst type of nuts in the whole wide world. If you ask me, coconuts shouldn’t be allowed in a funfair. If you double ask me, they shouldn’t even be allowed to grow. Coconuts are too big. Coconuts are too hairy. Plus, if you try to win one, they just get you into trouble. Which isn’t my fault!' Get up to no good with Daisy as she heads to the funfair - for a whole lot more trouble!
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448120403
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
'The trouble with coconuts is they are the worst type of nuts in the whole wide world. If you ask me, coconuts shouldn’t be allowed in a funfair. If you double ask me, they shouldn’t even be allowed to grow. Coconuts are too big. Coconuts are too hairy. Plus, if you try to win one, they just get you into trouble. Which isn’t my fault!' Get up to no good with Daisy as she heads to the funfair - for a whole lot more trouble!
Escape From Pompeii
Author: Christina Balit
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805073248
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
When Mount Vesuvius erupts in 79 A.D., Tranio and his friend Livia flee from their homes in Pompeii, Italy, and run to the harbor.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805073248
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
When Mount Vesuvius erupts in 79 A.D., Tranio and his friend Livia flee from their homes in Pompeii, Italy, and run to the harbor.