When highbrow meets lowbrow : popular culture and the rise of nobrow /: popular culture and the rise of nobrow. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Peter Swirski, Tero Eljas Vanhanen, editors.
• Editors: Swirski, Peter, 1966-; Vanhanen, Tero Eljas
• 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.
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 800; Popular culture -- Western countries; Popular literature -- Western countries; Arts -- Western countries; Popular culture; Popular literature; ART -- History -- General; Arts; Popular culture; Popular literature; Massenkultur; Hochkultur; Unterhaltung; Literature; Literary History; Media Studies; Cultural History; Cultural Studies; Western countries; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781349951680; 1349951684
• Related ISBNs: 1137597720; 9781137597724
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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