10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MIDDLEBROWISM»
Discover the use of
middlebrowism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
middlebrowism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Ventures in Social Interpretation
American middlebrowism is characterized by cultural dilettantism and
educational poverty, by intellectual laziness and social herd-mindedness, by
other-oriented conformity and conversational claptrap. It is also characterized by
the pursuit of ...
2
The New York Intellectuals: From Vanguard to Institution
[and] genteel belle-lettrism or populist rhetorising in critical discourse'4 - PR's
editors had equated Stalinism with middlebrowism. In 1939 Philip Rahv accused
American Stalinists of possessing the genteel and chauvinistic cultural norms of
the ...
3
Virginia Woolf and the Literary Marketplace
11 As early as 1918, however, Woolf's punningon the “middling” dimension of
middles articulated anearly denunciation of middlebrowism, testifying to the
cultural critique atwork inherreflection onthe essay. As a matter of fact, various
figural ...
4
Between Montmartre and the Mudd Club: Popular Music and the ...
... in obvious imitation of French practices— emerged just in time to acquire a
central place in the Elf Scharfrichter programs.35 This musical middlebrowism
from above was complemented, as it had been at the Chat Noir, with a
middlebrowism ...
The commercial aspect of middlebrowism figured in an angry (and prudently
never submitted) letter from Virginia Woolf to an editor ([1932]1942), in response
to a highbrow attack. Defending both highbrows and lowbrows as committed ...
Melba Cuddy-Keane, Adam Hammond, Alexandra Peat, 2014
6
Ex-Friends: Falling Out With Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and ...
In fact, there were critics who saw middlebrowism itself as one of the aesthetic
faces of Stalinism. Thus, Robert Warshow, writing in Commentary a year before
The Naked and the Dead appeared, drew a direct line between Stalinism and "
the ...
7
Masscult and Midcult: Essays Against the American Grain
Macdonald's attacks on middlebrowism inoculated The NewYorker against
accusations of middlebrowism. The pointwas brought home to Macdonald rather
forcefully—and, typically, heincluded a complete account ofthe affair in
Againstthe ...
Dwight Macdonald, John Summers, 2011
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The Norman Podhoretz Reader: A Selection of His Writings ...
Such blatantly Stalinist views had long been politically unacceptable in highbrow
literary circles—just as unacceptable as the middlebrow literary genre through
which Mailer put them forward. In fact, there were critics who saw middlebrowism
...
Norman Podhoretz, Thomas L. Jeffers, 2004
9
Journal of Existentialism
We do not have to worry about the minority but the intellectual and cultural inertia
of this middlebrow majority augurs ill for the democratic future of the West. If the
blight of middlebrowism can be halted or reversed, both in and out of academic ...
10
Ventures in social interpretation
American middlebrowism is characterized by cultural dilettantism and
educational poverty, by intellectual laziness and social herd-mindedness, by
other-oriented conformity and conversational claptrap. It is also characterized by
the pursuit of ...
4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MIDDLEBROWISM»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
middlebrowism is used in the context of the following news items.
TNC Presents David Ippolito & Gretchen Crier's POSSIBILITY …
They include folksy attacks on plastic pop culture ("Tom Cruise Scares Me") and middlebrowism ("This is a... Stupid Country"). He's a sometime ... «Broadway World, Sep 13»
Theater for the New City to Present David Ippolito & Gretchen Crier's …
They include folksy attacks on plastic pop culture ("Tom Cruise Scares Me") and middlebrowism ("This is a... Stupid Country"). He's a sometime ... «Broadway World, Aug 13»
Why Does The New Yorker Publish So Many Pieces About The New …
... whose “attacks on middlebrowism inoculated The New Yorker against accusations of being middlebrow.” When a biography of the The New ... «Slate Magazine, Jul 12»
Exclusive Interview With Award-Winning Fiction Writer Richard Burgin
Our culture is saturated and controlled by middlebrowism like a kind of massive hypnosis. We have become a nation of middlebrow writers and ... «Huffington Post, Nov 11»
