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The bifurcation of literary culture into "high" and "low" literature will continue to cause headaches.
It assumes many two-sided forms: trial / try, high / low, literature / journalism, formal / familiar, French / English, Eyquem / Ockham.
Not just the written tradition, but also the oral one; not just high literature, but also low literature".
I started to go to writers' communities and they told me: there is high literature, and low literature.
The phrase "good bad books," Orwell says in his essay of the same name, was coined by G. K. Chesterton, though Orwell's view of the best "low" literature is decidedly less condescending than Chesterton's "Defence of Penny Dreadfuls".
So far, I haven't found any studies distinguishing between the effects--good or bad--of "high" and "low" literature.
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Equally characteristic was the appearance of popular series at low prices, "literature for the millions," as Archibald Constable was the first to call it.
In general, the HRT was found to be as low in literature as 18 h (Gumisiriza et al. 2009) and as high as 300 days (Shpiner et al. 2007).
Because the incidence of GPHPT is so low, the literature is comprised almost exclusively of case reports with few reviews and only a large series [ 1- 3].
The Barnard College course called Major English Texts II was known by students as an easy A, a low-stress literature survey taught by a popular instructor.
Gray must be one of the best read of contemporary philosophers, trawling insouciantly through high-, middle- and low-brow literature with the sharp-eyed eclecticism of a magpie of genius.
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