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Chargement... Snobbery: The American Version (édition 2002)par Joseph Epstein
Détails de l'œuvreSnobbery: The American Version par Joseph Epstein
   Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Witty, erudite, effortlessly constructed and studded with 5-dollar words I don't know but would like to learn. Epstein is the new half-brother to my favorite family of writers, sitting at Thankgiving between Anne Fadiman and Joan Didion, across the table from Bill Bryson and Phillip Lopate. These are my heroes, men and women who take often pedestrian subjects and light them with bottle rockets from the inside. I hope to have a literary legacy like theirs someday. And as I practice, I read books like these to imagine what I could aim for in the meantime.
Will grab another Epstein right soon. I'm thinking In a Cardboard Belt (  ) Smokler | Jan 3, 2021 |  Occasionally droll but often irritating tour of the various forms of snobbery inherent in American life. The author, a professor of literature at Northwestern, ostensibly aims to puncture the pretensions of snobbery even as he engages in them himself; the book's fundamental assertions are confused and self-contradictory. (  ) MikeLindgren51 | Aug 7, 2018 | If you like.. Class by Paul Fussel  aletheia21 | Dec 3, 2012 |  kated | Aug 3, 2006 | aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Joseph Epstein's witty new book surveys American snobbery after the fall of the old Wasp culture of prep schools, Ivy League colleges, cotillions, debutante balls, the Social Register, and the rest of it. With ample humor and insight, Epstein uncovers the new outlets upon which the old snobbery has fastened: food and wine, fashion, high-achieving children, schools, politics, health, being with-it, name-dropping, and much else, including the roles of Jews and homosexuals in the development of snobbery. Playing throughout the book is the question of whether snobbery is part of human nature.--From publisher description. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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