What the market will allow: High culture and the bottom line

From: Journal of American & Comparative Cultures | Date: July 1, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

The search for a framework of literacy that can accommodate a broader sense of what it means to be literate in American mass culture, recalls not only such imports as Huxley's, Horkheimer's, Adorno's, Ortega y Gasset's, and T. S. Eliot's elitist worries of the 1930s that high culture was in jeopardy; that decade also saw great numbers of American "advanced intellectuals" as Philip Rahv called them (41), from all across the political spectrum, struggling with the problem that a twenty-nine-year-old Van Wyck Brooks had described as early as 1915. How could America reconcile the division between ...

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