literati

• “The term literati, as I use it, refers to those, like Siegel, who have refused to even open the curtains in their ivory towers to see the wonderful, burgeoning literary world that has sprung up around them.”

  The Huffington Post: Jason Pinter: Death of the Literati: Good Riddance to Closed-Mindedness

• “I think however that it is interesting to see you use the term literati, and picture my post as part of some larger struggle between one label group and another label group that I think breaks down as easily as my original post.”

  Thinking More on the Falseness of Literary Fiction, sometimes

• “In his review of a John Grisham novel he almost writes: The prevailing assumption among the literati is still ... that popularity equals mediocrity.”

  Book Reviewing

• “I doubt the "literati" -- that is, the literary intelligentsia -- would create any constitution or doubt that anyone would nominate Updike, Franzen, DFW, DeLillo, etc to draft a new constitution.”

  Balkinization

• “There is probably only one name the literati would admit to recognising, and that's Dan Brown, in at number two with The Lost Symbol, the follow-up to Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci Code.”

  The Guardian: Ebook restrictions leave libraries facing virtual lockout

• “Azar Nafisi was also there, along with Matt Klam and his family, and sprinkled among the literati were the friends I had made over the past year volunteering at the writing center.”

  The Huffington Post: Sean Carman: Saint Christopher

• “Cornelius Nepos, also, in his book, where he draws a distinction between a literate and a philologist, says that in common phrase, those are properly called literati who are skilled in speaking or writing with care or accuracy, and those more especially deserve the name who translated the poets, and were called grammarians by the Greeks.”

  De vita Caesarum

• “JEAN PAUL betwixt their blanc-mange and oysters, without comprehending even the outermost rind of its in-meaning; so utterly ignorant are our so-called literati of any subject beyond the scope of a newspaper, that the name of SEATSFIELD sounded as strangely in American ears as if he had lately arrived from Herschel or Georgium Sidus in a balloon.”

  The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6

• “Milan; called the literati of the town about us, and gave me the pleasure of conversing with the Abate Cefarotti, who translated Offian; and the Professor Statico, whose attentions I ought never to forget.”

  Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I

• “Seen by many as the height of Chinese visual culture, painting is closely associated with the gentlemen scholars known as literati who lived and worked for the most part far from court in rural retreats.”

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