High and Low in American Culture

Editorial Note 5

Charlotte Kretzoi:
From the Jumping Frog to a White Heron• 7
Peter Freese:
Laurel and Hardy vs. the Self-Reflexive Artefact. Kurt
Vonnegut's Novels Between High Culture and Popular
Culture 19
lEsoló Bollobás:
Versions of the Whole Earth Catalog: Ön the Poetry of
Robert Duncan and Edward Dorn 39
Péter Egri:
High Culture and Popular Culture in Eugene O'Neill
(Strange lnterlude) 55
Zoltán Szilassy:
Some Manifestations of Sub- and Counter-Culture in the
Literature About the American 196os 77
Éva Federmayer:
Critical Approaches Toward High and Low 87
Paul Levine:
The Two Cultures of Ragtime 95
Warren French:
Twenty-Five (No Make That Fifty) Years of Movie-Going
in the United States 107
Péter Szentmihályi Szabó:
High Culture and Popular Culture in American Com-
mercial Television 121
fokín Kövecses:
The Folk Model of Romantic Love in America 125
Sarctor Rot:
Varieties of American English in the Macrostructure of
American Culture and Semiotic Problems of Cultural
Pluralism 133
Aladár Sarbu:
Concepts of Culture, or Our Image of America 157


John McDermott:
From Prairie Schooner to Skyscraper 167
Giles Gunn:
The History of American Studies and the Relation
Between High and Popular Culture 181
Bálint Rozsnyai:
High Culture, Popular Culture, and the Teaching of
American Studies in Hungary 197