How to sound cultured : master the 250 names that intellectuals love to drop into conversation
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Author
Contributors
Van den Bergh, Hubert, author.
Published
London : Icon Books, 2015.
Format
Book
ISBN
9781848319301, 1848319304
Physical Desc
xv, 382 pages ; 21 cm
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| Location | Call Number | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Cone Park Branch - Adult Non-Fiction | 306 HOD 2015 | In |
| Tower Road Branch - Adult Non-Fiction | 306 HOD 2015 | In |
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Published
London : Icon Books, 2015.
Language
English
ISBN
9781848319301, 1848319304
Notes
General Note
Includes index.
Description
'Damn, all my cheating secrets revealed. In book form' Stephen Fry Which philosopher had the maddest hairstyle? Which novelist drank 50 cups of black coffee every day? What on earth did Simone de Beauvoir see in Jean-Paul Sartre? How to Sound Cultured offers a wry and yet profoundly useful look inside the mirrored palaces of high culture. Covering such inscrutable characters as Heidegger, Montaigne, Kahlo and Levi-Strauss (apparently not just a designer of jeans), inscrutable polymaths Thomas W. Hodgkinson and Hubert van den Bergh - the author of the acclaimed How to Sound Clever - have done the hard work of sorting the cultural wheat from the chaff. Read this book and you'll never again mistake Rimbaud for Rambo or Georg Lukacs for George Lucas, you'll know precisely when to drop Foucault's name into a conversation and how to pronounce 'Borgesian', and you'll learn many more essential pointers for the intellectual life.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Hodgkinson, T. W., & Van den Bergh, H. (2015). How to sound cultured: master the 250 names that intellectuals love to drop into conversation . Icon Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Hodgkinson, T. W and Hubert, Van den Bergh. 2015. How to Sound Cultured: Master the 250 Names That Intellectuals Love to Drop Into Conversation. Icon Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Hodgkinson, T. W and Hubert, Van den Bergh. How to Sound Cultured: Master the 250 Names That Intellectuals Love to Drop Into Conversation Icon Books, 2015.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Hodgkinson, T. W., and Hubert Van den Bergh. How to Sound Cultured: Master the 250 Names That Intellectuals Love to Drop Into Conversation Icon Books, 2015.
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