James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake and Ulyssesshould qualify as high brow literature. Poetry might be the best medium when searching for 20th century high-brow material. Ezra Pound should qualify there as well as many others.
Barthes should qualify as a high-brow theorist. Baktin and Malarme are other literary theorists from the 20th century.
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