[PDF.17hu] The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia 1880-1939

The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia 1880-1939

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 | #323389 in eBooks |  2012-12-20 |  2012-12-20 | File type: PDF

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Peels off layers of intellectual BS|By Kindle Customer|Intellectuals seem to have the idea that they are not like the rest of us. Their arguments for promoting this idea are analyzed in this book. The works of the intelligentsia are made to speak for themselves and the picture is frequently unpleasant.

Generalizations are always problematic and feed into the kinds|From Publishers Weekly|This scathing critique argues that modernist literature and art arose as a reaction against popular culture and the mass reading public created by late 19th-century educational reforms. Oxford Enlgish professor Carey shows how intellectual

Professor John Carey shows how early twentieth-century intellectuals imagined the 'masses' as semi-human swarms, drugged by popular newspapers and cinema, and ripe for extermination. Exposing the revulsion from common humanity in George Bernard Shaw, Ezra Pound, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, H. G. Wells, Aldous Huxley, W. B. Yeats and other canonized writers, he relates this to the cult of the Nietzschean Superman, which found its ultimate exponent i...

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