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Author : Laura (Riding) Jackson
Publisher : Scholarly Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)
Download or read book Contemporaries and Snobs written by Laura (Riding) Jackson and published by Scholarly Press. This book was released on 1928 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Book of Snobs written by William Makepeace Thackeray and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Laura Riding
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 081735767X
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)
Download or read book Contemporaries and Snobs written by Laura Riding and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2014-02-28 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of Contemporaries and Snobs, a landmark collection of essays by Laura Riding, offers a counter-history of high modernist poetics. Laura Riding’s Contemporaries and Snobs (1928) was the first volume of essays to engage critically with high modernist poetics from the position of the outsider. For readers today, it offers a compelling account—by turns personal, by turns historical—of how the institutionalization of modernism denuded experimental poetry. Most importantly, Contemporaries and Snobs offers a counter-history of the idiosyncratic, of what the institution of modernism left (and leaves) behind. With Gertrude Stein as its figurehead, the book champions the noncanonical, the “barbaric,” and the undertheorized. Riding’s nuanced defense of a poetics of the person in Contemporaries and Snobs represents a forgotten but essential first attempt to identify and foster what is now a well-defined poetic lineage that leads from Stein to the contemporary experimental avant-garde. In these essays, Riding takes her readers on a remarkably thorough tour through the critical scene of the 1920s. Among other influential treatises, she considers T. S. Eliot’s The Sacred Wood and his editorial essays in The Criterion, Allen Tate’s “Poetry and the Absolute,” John Crowe Ransom’s essays on the modernist poet, Edgell Rickword’s essays in The Calendar of Modern Letters, and Herbert Read’s posthumous publication of T. E. Hulme’s essays. All of this criticism, Riding notes, gave modern poets a sheen of seriousness and professionalism, but was it good for poetry? Her decisive answer is “no.” This new edition includes an introduction by Laura Heffernan and Jane Malcolm that makes legible the many connections between Contemporaries and Snobs and the critical debates and poetic experiments of the 1920s, as well as explanatory notes, a chronological bibliography of Riding’s work, and an index of proper names.
Author : Laura Riding
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)
Download or read book Contemporaries and Snobs written by Laura Riding and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Laura Jackson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)
Download or read book Contemporaries and Snobs written by Laura Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julian Fellowes
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312336936
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)
Download or read book Snobs written by Julian Fellowes and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-01-24 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preparing to marry heir Charles Broughton, attractive accountant's daughter Edith Lavery makes humorous and astute observations about contemporary England's class system.
Author : D.J. Taylor
Publisher : Constable & Robinson
ISBN 13 : 9781472123947
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)
Download or read book The New Book of Snobs written by D.J. Taylor and published by Constable & Robinson. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Hugely enjoyable' AN Wilson, Sunday Times 'Thoughtful, entertaining and enjoyable' Michael Gove, Book of the Week, The Times Inspired by William Makepeace Thackeray, the first great analyst of snobbery, and his trail-blazing The Book of Snobs (1848), D. J. Taylor brings us a field guide to the modern snob. Short of calling someone a racist or a paedophile, one of the worst charges you can lay at anybody's door in the early twenty-first century is to suggest that they happen to be a snob. But what constitutes snobbishness? Who are the snobs and where are they to be found? Are you a snob? Am I? What are the distinguishing marks? Snobbery is, in fact, one of the keys to contemporary British life, as vital to the backstreet family on benefits as the proprietor of the grandest stately home, and an essential element of their view of who of they are and what the world might be thought to owe them. The New Book of Snobs will take a marked interest in language, the vocabulary of snobbery - as exemplified in the 'U' and 'Non U' controversy of the 1950s - being a particular field in which the phenomenon consistently makes its presence felt, and alternate social analysis with sketches of groups and individuals on the Thackerayan principle. Prepare to meet the Political Snob, the City Snob, the Technology Snob, the Property Snob, the Rural Snob, the Literary Snob, the Working-class Snob, the Sporting Snob, the Popular Cultural Snob and the Food Snob.
Author : Laura (Riding) Jackson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)
Download or read book Contemporaries and Snobs written by Laura (Riding) Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Epstein
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)
Download or read book Snobbery written by Joseph Epstein and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Epstein's witty new book is a highly entertaining investigation of snobbery, and the first devoted exclusively to the subject since Thackeray's "The Book of Snobs."
Author : Sean Latham
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501727567
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)
Download or read book Am I a Snob? written by Sean Latham and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there a "great divide" between highbrow and mass cultures? Are modernist novels for, by, and about snobs? What might Lord Peter Wimsey, Mrs. Dalloway, and Stephen Dedalus have to say to one another?Sean Latham's appealingly written book "Am I a Snob?" traces the evolution of the figure of the snob through the works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and Dorothy Sayers. Each of these writers played a distinctive role in the transformation of the literary snob from a vulgar social climber into a master of taste. In the process, some novelists and their works became emblems of sophistication, treated as if they were somehow apart from or above the fiction of the popular marketplace, while others found a popular audience. Latham argues that both coterie writers like Joyce and popular novelists like Sayers struggled desperately to combat their own pretensions. By portraying snobs in their novels, they attempted to critique and even transform the cultural and economic institutions that they felt isolated them from the broad readership they desired.Latham regards the snobbery that emerged from and still clings to modernism not as an unfortunate by-product of aesthetic innovation, but as an ongoing problem of cultural production. Drawing on the tools and insights of literary sociology and cultural studies, he traces the nineteenth-century origins of the "snob," then explores the ways in which modernist authors developed their own snobbery as a means of coming to critical consciousness regarding the connections among social, economic, and cultural capital. The result, Latham asserts, is a modernism directly engaged with the cultural marketplace yet deeply conflicted about the terms of its success.
