Abstract
Chapter 4, Beth Driscoll’s “Middlebrow and Nobrow: Tracing Patterns Across Culture” sets the stage for the analysis of nobrow by way of its kissing cousin—middlebrow. Where middlebrow operates in a cultural space between the elites and the masses, nobrow is a different kind of animal altogether. How different? We take a behind-the-scenes look at literary prizes on the way to a couple of murder investigations, a love-struck geneticist, and a backyard barbeque gone horribly wrong—all in the name of illuminating the junction where the elites and the masses intersect, as they do more often than many highbrows care to admit.
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Friedman, 2011.
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Williamson, 2015.
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Driscoll, 2014.
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Swirski, 2016a, p. 2.
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Woolf, 1942, p. 113.
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Leavis, 1932/1978, p. 50.
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Gelder, 2004, p. 59.
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Sonnet, 2011.
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Swirski, 2016a, p. 11.
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Knight, 2011, p. 78.
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Temple, 2009, p. 3.
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Quinn, 2011.
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ABC News, 2010.
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McEvoy, 2010.
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“Miles Franklin Judges Notes,” 2010.
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Knight, 2011, p. 78.
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See http://graemesimsion.com; Pryor, 2014; Balfour, 2015.
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Fletcher, 2008, p. 26.
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Simsion, 2013, p. 314.
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Simsion, 2013, p. 314.
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Mayo, 2013.
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Wendell, 2013.
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http://graemesimsion.com/?p=658.
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Swirski, Chapter 3 in this collection.
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Tsiolkas, 2008.
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McCann, 2015, p. 124.
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Moylan, 2015.
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Tsiolkas, 2008, p. 479.
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Poletti and Alizadeh, 2014, pp. 219 and 224.
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Poletti and Alizadeh, 2014, p. 212.
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Tsiolkas, 2008, p. 89.
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Papastergiadis, 2013, p. 389.
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Perrin, 2011.
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Tsiolkas, 2008, p. 1.
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Gelder, 2016.
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Driscoll, B. (2017). Middlebrow and Nobrow. In: Swirski, P., Vanhanen, T. (eds) When Highbrow Meets Lowbrow. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95168-0_4
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