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Trash-mouthed Roseanne made everyone else look middlebrow by comparison.
New York recently featured this literary murder mystery as a case study in "breakthrough" marketing--its publisher, Viking, hoped to position it as a middlebrow hit, like Annie Proulx's The Shipping News . Reviewers aren't cooperating.
The Weekly Standar d's J. Bottum rebuts that Cold Mountain 's highbrow critics misunderstand its middlebrow virtues.
But I suppose it is something of a triumph, which the publication of this book is meant to acknowledge, that black studies has achieved middlebrow status in the United States, that bourgeois people, both white and black, feel bad if they don't know something about the history and culture of African-descended people, in much the same way they feel bad, inadequate, if they don't know something about opera or a bit about Impressionist painting or if they have never seen a film by D. W. Griffith or Fritz Lang.
Corpus Christi , like his other plays, is a work of unchallenging, middlebrow subscription theater on a touchy theme.