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02/02/2004 Archived Entry: "strange foods"

Just started reading Strange Foods, and I am already inspired to create a course around it for my Fall first year writing course. The idea is that we read this book, figure out what Hopkins is doing rhetorically in order to make our expectations of food change, and students work on stranging their own topic or interest. What Hopkins does to our expectations of food, do for some other area of interest. Make the everyday, the acceptable, the "natural," strange.

We'll call this kind of writing stranging.