Strange Gourmets: Sophistication, Theory, and the Novel

Strange Gourmets: Sophistication, Theory, and the Novel

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Author/Contributor(s): Litvak, Joseph
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date: 09/24/1997
Binding: Paperback
Condition: NEW
Though commonly thought of as a kind of worldliness at its best and an elitist snobbery at its worst, sophistication, Joseph Litvak reminds us, remains tied to its earlier, if forgotten, meaning of "perversion"--which encompassed homosexuality and intellectualism. Litvak's strategy is to reveal culture as a contest of sophistications in which the winners are often those who best disguise their sophistication.