10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HIGHBROWISM»
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highbrowism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
highbrowism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Virginia Woolf, the Intellectual, and the Public Sphere
As a concept, “democratic highbrowism” exists as a value, a goal to direct present
work. Although it is the product of desire, it is the common desire that prompts
most of us to imagine, in the words of Northrop Frye, “the ideal existence ofa
world ...
Good highbrowism and bad highbrowism are, I suspect, much like Siamese twins
: you can't have one without having the other. But I will not push that theoretical
issue; I have wanted merely to emphasize their interrelationship strongly enough
...
3
Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors
C. F. S. Virtue, 4 699 Hawley, Claude E., Education for International
Understanding, 3 530 Heilman, Robert B., An Inquiry Into Anti-Highbrowism, 4
611 Higher Education and Freedom — Statements by Robert Maynard Hulchins,
Daniel L.
American Association of University Professors, 1948
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Fluent English. Grands commençants
Highbrowism versus Lowbrowism. To a great extent, of course, it is just a matter
of taste. I am a highbrow for the same reason as I am an eater of strawberries. I
enjoy the eating of strawberries and I enjoy the processes and experiences
which ...
5
Soft in the Middle: The Contemporary Softcore Feature in Its ...
Bourdieu neither takes a simplistic attitude toward the middlebrow nor expresses
a straightforward highbrowism. After all, his sociological approach to aesthetics is
an antiessentialist project that undermines highbrowism by emphasizing that ...
... and proceed to paint a picture of those other men, hardly more flattering than
that which Swift painted of the Yahoos. Then, explicitly or implicitly, they
associate their highbrowism with virtue, and speak of their own learned
refinement as ...
Bernfried Nugel, Jerome Meckier, 2009
Speaking to the American Association of University Professors, Robert Heilman
differentiated between “good” and “bad highbrowism” in a spirited protest against
encroaching “anti-highbrowism” among “teacher[s] of literature” (1949). Heilman
...
Melba Cuddy-Keane, Adam Hammond, Alexandra Peat, 2014
Cuddy-Keane's conclusion, that Woolf sought to fuse "the two apparently
contradictory aims of democracy and highbrowism" (58) is a conclusion I agree
with; Woolf both rejected the mandarin elitism which sought to reinforce the
borders of ...
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The Immediate Experience: Movies, Comics, Theatre & Other ...
For all Warshow's highbrowism, and despite the beautiful gravity of his style, one
can hear in such sentiments a ready enjoyment of the life of the streets, the
corner drugstore, the newspapers, and the ballpark. As Lionel Trilling and others
...
10
The Rejoicing of Herman Smith
... Cronyism, Rationalism, Mammonism 101 and 301, Occultism, Layyahooism,
Pietism, Me-tooism, Layamateurism, Workaholism (it was taught by President
Martha), Ritualism, Formalism, Self-Willism, Positioningism, Hedonism,
Highbrowism, ...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HIGHBROWISM»
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highbrowism is used in the context of the following news items.
Prepping for a Pig Out
... The Crazy Eight (originally, it was The Elite Eight, but apparently lunacy won out over highbrowism), for an event taking place in October at ... «San Diego Reader, May 13»
Between worlds
... compounded of all manner of bushwhackery and end-of-the-earth Australian highbrowism, is one of the shining examples of what the novel ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Sep 12»
