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When highbrow meets lowbrow : popular culture and the rise of nobrow / Peter Swirski, Tero Eljas Vanhanen, editors.
Van Pelt Library NX460.5.N63 W44 2017
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Fine Arts Library NX460.5.N63 W44 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular culture--Western countries.
- Popular culture.
- Popular literature--Western countries.
- Popular literature.
- Arts--Western countries.
- Arts.
- Western countries.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 271 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, NY] : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction: browbeaten into pulp / Peter Swirski and Tero Eljas Vanhanen : No brow, no problem
- What cultural critics are for
- Notes. 2 Pop culture and nobrow culture / Arthur Asa Berger : Li'l Abner as a dissertation topic
- Pop culture and other related concerns
- Highbrows, lowbrows, and nobrows, Notes. 3 Nobrow, American style / Peter Swirski : Two-rail engine
- Just right!
- Crowd mentality
- Notes. 4 Middlebrow and nobrow / Beth Driscoll : What happens when popular fiction wins a literary prize?
- How we fell about romance
- The limits of middlebrow and nobrow
- Notes. 5 Prequels to nobrow / Kenneth Krabbenhoft : Verbal correctness from Socrates to the Renaissance
- From unibrow to unbrow in the sixteenth century
- From unibrow to unbrow in Lope de Vega and Cervantes
- Notes. 6 Gothic literature in America / Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet : Puzzling Poe
- Mysterious Melville
- Going Gothic
- Notes. 7 Neither Indian reservation nor baboon patriarchy / Nicholas Ruddick : The talking squid of Saturn
- Outer stupidity, inner logic
- Everyone welcome (except hippos)
- Notes. 8 Mambo clothing and Australian nobrow / Chris McAuliffe : Building a nobrow brand: antithesis, take the piss, synthesis
- Mambo and the new nobrow economy
- High culture comes to the beach party
- Notes. 9 Guilty pleasures, or nobrow treasures? / David McAvoy : Pathologizing guilt
- Guilty pleasure, aka acceptable buyer's remorse
- Nobrow treasures and the glitch in the matrix
- Notes. 10 The good, the bad, and the nobrow / Tero Eljas Vanhanen : Blood and guts
- Don't believe the reaper
- Of the standard of distaste
- Notes. Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-259) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137597724
- 1137597720
- OCLC:
- 967973569
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