Reading Food In Modern Japanese Literature By Tomoko Aoyama
by Tomoko Aoyama /
2008 / English / PDF
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Literature, like food, is, in Terry Eagleton's words, "endlessly interpretable," and food, like literature, "looks like an object but is actually a relationship." So how much do we, and should we, read into the way food is represented in literature? "Reading Food" explores this and other questions in an unusual and fascinating tour of twentieth-century Japanese literature.
