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- catalog abstract ""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 wordliness as 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10435225.
- catalog created "1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
- catalog description ""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 wordliness as 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Delicacy and disgust, mourning and melancholia, privilege and perversity: Pride and prejudice -- Bon chic, bon genre: sophistication and history in Northanger Abbey -- Kiss me, stupid: sophistication and snobbery in Vanity fair -- Taste, waste, Proust -- Expensive tastes: Adorno, Barthes, and cultural studies.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xi, 181 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Strange gourmets.".
- catalog identifier "082232007X (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0822320169 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Strange gourmets.".
- catalog isPartOf "Series Q".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Durham, NC : Duke University Press,".
- catalog relation "Strange gourmets.".
- catalog subject "808.3 21".
- catalog subject "Fiction History and criticism Theory, etc.".
- catalog subject "PN3331 .L58 1997".
- catalog subject "Rhetoric.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Delicacy and disgust, mourning and melancholia, privilege and perversity: Pride and prejudice -- Bon chic, bon genre: sophistication and history in Northanger Abbey -- Kiss me, stupid: sophistication and snobbery in Vanity fair -- Taste, waste, Proust -- Expensive tastes: Adorno, Barthes, and cultural studies.".
- catalog title "Strange gourmets : sophistication, theory, and the novel / Joseph Litvak.".
- catalog type "text".