I Used To Be A Highbrow But Look At Me Now

Author : Brooks E. Hefner
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476624801
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "I Used to Be a Highbrow but Look at Me Now" written by Brooks E. Hefner and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This article reads Willard Huntington Wright's work against his anxieties about cultural hierarchy and value, utilizing archival work in Wright's papers at the University of Virginia and unearthing a previously unknown series of crime stories that he published under another pseudonym a decade before his success as bestselling detective novelist S. S. Van Dine. The author argues that Wright's work in popular fiction provides a special opportunity for interrogating the highbrow/lowbrow divide and its phrenological roots. This article originally appeared in Clues: A Journal of Detection, Volume 30, Issue 1.

Author : S. S. Van Dine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Used to be a Highbrow, But Look at Me Now written by S. S. Van Dine and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Willard Huntington Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Used to be a Highbrow written by Willard Huntington Wright and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lise Jaillant
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317317769
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modernism, Middlebrow and the Literary Canon written by Lise Jaillant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1920s and 1930s the Modern Library series began to bring out cheap editions of modernist works. Jaillant provides a thorough analysis of the series’ mix of highbrow and popular literature and argues that the availability and low cost of modernist works helped to expand modernism's influence as a literary movement.

Author : J.K. Van Dover
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786456892
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making the Detective Story American written by J.K. Van Dover and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-04-19 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical text examines the fiction of Earl Derr Biggers, S. S. Van Dine, and Dashiell Hammett during a crucial half-decade when they transformed the detective story. The characters they created, including Charlie Chan, Philo Vance, and the Continental Op, represented a new style of detective solving crimes in fresh ways. Their successes would push crime and detective fiction in startling and rejuvenating directions. Topics covered include the highbrow detective, the ethnic detective, the exploitation of contemporary sensations, and the exploitation of women. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Author : Mark McGurl
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691214832
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Novel Art written by Mark McGurl and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time there were good American novels and bad ones, but none was thought of as a work of art. The Novel Art tells the story of how, beginning with Henry James, this began to change. Examining the late-nineteenth century movement to elevate the status of the novel, its sources, paradoxes, and reverberations into the twentieth century, Mark McGurl presents a more coherent and wide-ranging account of the development of American modernist fiction than ever before. Moving deftly from James to Stephen Crane, Edith Wharton, Gertrude Stein, William Faulkner, Dashiell Hammett, and Djuna Barnes among others, McGurl argues that what unifies this diverse group of ambitious writers is their agonized relation to a middling genre rarely included in discussions of the fine arts. He concludes that the new product, despite its authors' desire to distinguish it from popular forms, never quite forsook the intimacy the genre had long cultivated with the common reader. Indeed, the ''art novel'' sought status within the mass market, and among its prime strategies was a promotion of the mind as a source of value in an economy increasingly dependent on mental labor. McGurl also shows how modernism's obsessive interest in simple-mindedness revealed a continued concern with the masses even as it attempted to use this simplicity to produce a heightened sophistication of form. Masterfully argued and set in elegant prose, The Novel Art provides a rich new understanding of the fascinating road the American novel has taken from being an artless enterprise to an aesthetic one.

Author : Amnon Kabatchnik
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810869632
Total Pages : 869 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood on the Stage, 1925-1950 written by Amnon Kabatchnik and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 869 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Amnon Kabatchnik provides an overview of more than 150 important and memorable theatrical works of crime and detection between 1925 and 1950. Each entry includes a plot synopsis, production data, and the opinions of well known and respected critics and scholars.

Author : Anthony Slide
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1604734140
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine written by Anthony Slide and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-02-26 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fan magazine has often been viewed simply as a publicity tool, a fluffy exercise in self-promotion by the film industry. But as an arbiter of good and bad taste, as a source of knowledge, and as a gateway to the fabled land of Hollywood and its stars, the American fan magazine represents a fascinating and indispensable chapter in journalism and popular culture. Anthony Slide's Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine provides the definitive history of this artifact. It charts the development of the fan magazine from the golden years when Motion Picture Story Magazine and Photoplay first appeared in 1911 to its decline into provocative headlines and titillation in the 1960s and afterward. Slide discusses how the fan magazines dealt with gossip and innuendo, and how they handled nationwide issues such as Hollywood scandals of the 1920s, World War II, the blacklist, and the death of President Kennedy. Fan magazines thrived in the twentieth century, and they presented the history of an industry in a unique, sometimes accurate, and always entertaining style. This major cultural history includes a new interview with 1970s media personality Rona Barrett, as well as original commentary from a dozen editors and writers. Also included is a chapter on contributions to the fan magazines from well-known writers such as Theodore Dreiser and e. e. cummings. The book is enhanced by an appendix documenting some 268 American fan magazines and includes detailed publication histories.

Author : Howard Haycraft
Publisher : Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486829308
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murder for Pleasure written by Howard Haycraft and published by Dover Publications. This book was released on 2019-02-13 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Genuinely fascinating reading."—The New York Times Book Review "Diverting and patently authoritative."—The New Yorker "Grand and fascinating … a history, a compendium and a critical study all in one, and all first rate."—Rex Stout "A landmark … a brilliant study written with charm and authority."—Ellery Queen "This book is of permanent value. It should be on the shelf of every reader of detective stories."—Erle Stanley Gardner Author Howard Haycraft, an expert in detective fiction, traces the genre's development from the 1840s through the 1940s. Along the way, he charts the innovations of Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, and Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as the modern influence of George Simenon, Josephine Tey, and others. Additional topics include a survey of the critical literature, a detective story quiz, and a Who's Who in Detection.

Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349813664
Total Pages : 1585 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-25 with total page 1585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: