Monday, November 12, 2012

upper middle brow

Upper Middle Brow by William Deresiewicz in The American Scholar is what they call self-referential. Иначе говоря - самоотносимый. к известной классификации он добавляет ступень upper middle brow:
It is edgy, clever, knowing, stylish, and formally inventive. It is Jonathan Lethem, Wes Anderson, Lost in Translation, Girls, Stewart/Colbert, The New Yorker, This American Life and the whole empire of quirk, and the films that should have won the Oscars (the films you’re not sure whether to call films or movies).
при этом к midcult он относит Steven Spielberg, Jonathan Safran Foer (but not Sedaris).

и не упоминает ни Ортегу и-Гассета (хотя цитирует критиков 30-х и 60-х годов), ни Middle Mind by Curtis White.

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