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'The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food is not another of those anthologies that brings together extracts and examples of literary references to food. It is instead a collection of original research aimed at exploring and expanding the understanding of how food is used in literature. As the editors make clear in the introduction, their intention in this volume is not to present ‘an exhaustive or definitive discussion of topics, literary forms or modes, or genres’ (4), such a task might be almost impossible, but rather to provide a snapshot of the scholarship relating to food and literature, to demonstrate ‘the variety of lenses through which the function of food in literature may be viewed’ (2) and showcase the many literary forms, both fiction and non-fiction, that deal with food.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture vol. 8 no. 2 September 2019 17977640 2019 periodical issue 'This issue of The Australasian Journal of Popular Cultural Studies brings together a wide range of new research on popular culture from Australia and New Zealand. In this issue, the contributors address a rich vein of products of popular culture. This includes work inspired by both current affairs, and that which looks to cultural and social production further back into the past. Marcel Danesi has long argued that ‘because of its populist origins’, popular culture has been ‘an unconscious driving force behind social, economic, and even political change’. Simultaneously, Danesi suggests, popular culture also has the ability to trigger ‘unprecedented society-wide, event worldwide’ debates about the relationship between entertainment, aesthetics and spectacle. With their interwoven focus on the connections between the everyday, identity, geography, time, our corporeal selves and our pervasive sense of moral conduct, the articles in this issue of Australasian Journal of Popular Culture draw attention to the part played by popular culture narratives in not only reflecting, but also responding to, the broader discourses of identity and society that construct our contemporary lives in the twenty-first century.' (Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Donna Lee Brien : Editorial introduction) 2019 pg. 261-264
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