CFP: Food and the Literary Imagination (10/31/05; journal isue)
Call for Submissions: The Critic, the journal of the College English
Association, is preparing a special issue on Food and the Literary Imagination.
Scholars interested are invited to submit essays of 5,000 words. Topics are
flexible and may include such as food as symbol; food and character or theme; food
and ideology; conversation at meals; cultural preferences, taboos, and
social roles; food and social currency; food and sexuality; food, fasting, and
spirituality, and of course, the pleasure of it all. Deadline is October 31,
2005. For further information, contact Walter Levy at _wlevy129_at_aol.com_
(mailto:wlevy129_at_aol.com) .