Antrim, Minna -- Don’ts for Bachelors and Old Maids (1908)

Dave — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 14:40:17 +0000

Don’t use the vulgaria’s patois. “Swell,” “Gent,” “Shine” and “Cop” are among his most common expressions.

Minna Antrim (1861-1950) American epigrammatist, writer
Don’ts for Bachelors and Old Maids (1908)
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Frye, Northrop -- Anatomy of Criticism, “Mythical Phase: Symbol as Archetype” (1957)

Dave — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 18:14:16 +0000

Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favour with its original audience as a new generation grows up; then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of “quaint” and cultivated people become interested in it, and finally it begins to take on the archaic dignity of the primitive.

Northrop Frye (1912-1991) Canadian literary critic and literary theorist
Anatomy of Criticism, “Mythical Phase: Symbol as Archetype” (1957)
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Antrim, Minna -- Don’ts for Bachelors and Old Maids (1908)

Frye, Northrop -- Anatomy of Criticism, “Mythical Phase: Symbol as Archetype” (1957)