Inventing High and Low: Literature, Mass Culture, and Uneven Modernity in Spain

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Dire word of the cultural threat of the lowbrow goes back at least to the ancient Greeks, and yet, Stephanie Sieburth suggests, no division between "high" and "low" culture will stand up to logical scrutiny. Why, then, does the opposition persist? In this book Sieburth questions the terms of this perennial debate and uncovers the deep cultural, economic, and psychological tensions that lead each generation to reinvent the distinction between high...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:082231441X

ISBN13:9780822314417

Release Date:June 1994

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:296 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"

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