When Highbrow Meets Lowbrow Popular Culture and the Rise of Nobrow
This book examines nobrow, a cultural formation that intertwines art and entertainment into an identifiable creative force. In our eclectic and culturally turbocharged world, the binary of highbrow vs. lowbrow is incapable of doing justice to the com
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Peter Swirski • Tero Eljas Vanhanen Editors
When Highbrow Meets Lowbrow Popular Culture and the Rise of Nobrow
Editors Peter Swirski American Studies and American Literature Hong Kong, Hong Kong
ISBN 978-1-137-59772-4 DOI 10.1057/978-1-349-95168-0
Tero Eljas Vanhanen University of Helsinki Helsinki, Finland
ISBN 978-1-349-95168-0 (eBook)
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This book is dedicated to Teri and Mari
CONTENTS
1 Introduction—Browbeaten into Pulp Peter Swirski and Tero Eljas Vanhanen No Brow, No Problem What Cultural Critics Are For Notes
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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
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13 17 22 28
3 Nobrow, American Style Peter Swirski Two-Rail Engine Just Right! Crowd Mentality Notes
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4 Middlebrow and Nobrow Beth Driscoll What Happens When Popular Fiction Wins a Literary Prize? How We Feel About Romance
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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
71 77 81 82 91 98 106 109 112 119 126 129
7 Neither Indian Reservation Nor Baboon Patriarchy Nicholas Ruddick The Talking
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