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Strange Gourmets - Sophistication, Theory, and the Novel (Paperback, New)
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Strange Gourmets - Sophistication, Theory, and the Novel (Paperback, New)
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Theoretically sophisticated: How often has this term been used to
distinguish a work of contemporary criticism, and what, exactly,
does it mean? In Strange Gourmets, Joseph Litvak reclaims
sophistication from its negative connotations and turns the
spotlight on those who, even as they demonize sophistication,
surreptitiously and extensively use it. Though commonly thought of
as a kind of worldliness at its best and an elitist snobbery at its
worst, sophistication, Litvak reminds us, remains tied to its
earlier, if forgotten, meaning of "perversion"-a perversion whose
avatars are the homosexual and the intellectual. Proceeding with
his investigations from a specifically gay academic perspective,
Litvak presents thoroughly inventive readings of novels by Austen,
Thackeray, and Proust, and of theoretical works by Adorno and
Barthes, each text epitomizing sophistication in one of its more
familiar modes. Among the issues he explores are the ways in which
these texts teach sophistication, the embarrassment that
sophistication causes the sophisticated, and how the class politics
of sophistication are inseparable from its sexual politics. Helping
gay, queer, feminist, and other provocative critics to make the
most of their bad publicity, Litvak mindfully celebrates
sophistication's economy of taste and pleasure.
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