By Gary Day
This e-book strains the phenomenon of sophistication from the medieval to the postmodern interval, uniquely studying its relevance to literary and cultural research. Drawing on historic, sociological and literary writings, Gary Day:
* provides an account of sophistication at diversified historic moments
* exhibits the function of sophistication in literary structures of the social
* examines the complicated kin among 'class' and 'culture'
* focuses realization at the function of sophistication in buildings of 'the literary' and 'the canon'
* employs a revived and revised inspiration of sophistication to critique fresh theoretical routine.
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