Extending the Middlebrow: Italian Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century [PDF]
Belphégor, 2017 The aim of this essay is to determine whether the concept of the middlebrow can also be translated to cultural and historical contexts other than the Anglo-American one in which it first originated.
Elke D’hoker, Sarah Bonciarelli
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Literary Lessons. Knowledge and Genre in Dutch Middlebrow Fiction of the Interwar Years [PDF]
Belphégor, 2017 The middlebrow novel has often been characterized as a highly didactic and pedagogical literary form, that aims to combine entertainment with education and instruction.
Bram Lambrecht +2 more
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Relief: Revue Électronique de Littérature Francaise, 2015 The first half of the twentieth century saw the rise of a new type of novel that straddled the divide between popular entertainment and legitimate culture by combining ‘high’ and ‘low’ literary forms and catering en masse for the tastes of an expanding ...
Pieter Verstraeten, Karen van Hove
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Beyond Clichés and Satire: Expatriation and Modernism in a Middlebrow Novel, The French They are a Funny Race, by Lyon Mearson (1931) [PDF]
IdeAs, 2018 This article focuses on the discussion of expatriation and on the representations of modernism in a middlebrow novel, The French They are a Funny Race, by Lyon Mearson (1931), arguing that those two aspects are linked by a common critical perspective on ...
Céline Mansanti
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Know Your Audience: Middlebrow aesthetic and literary positioning in the fiction of P.G. Wodehouse [PDF]
, 2016 This essay strives to explain Wodehouse’s status as a popular writer, whose work is read with enjoyment by academics, critics and the general reader alike, as resulting from his particular positioning within the literary field, scrutinizing his ...
Ann-Marie Einhaus
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Middlebrow Aesthetics: An Explanation and Defense [PDF]
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We offer a philosophical account of the middlebrow as a theoretical category to do explanatory and critical work in aesthetics. On our account, the middlebrow ought to be understood as aspirational popular art. That is, it is art which aspires both to be popular (in a distinctive sense), and at the same time to be something more than popular ...
Aaron Meskin, Jonathan M. Weinberg
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The middlebrow Spanish Civil War film: a site of mediation between culture and history. [PDF]
Belphégor, 2017 Films set during or immediately after the Spanish Civil War have a long tradition in Spain, one which spans the entire spectrum of filmic genres, from propaganda to musicals to art-house.
Laura J. Lee Kemp
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Making the Case for Middlebrow Culture [PDF]
Journal of Transnational American Studies, 2010 It is commonly assumed that Caribbean culture is split into elite highbrow culture—which is considered derivative of Europe and not rooted in the Caribbean—and authentic working-class culture, which is often identified with such iconic island activities ...
Belinda Edmondson
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Beyond the subversion / containment binary: Middlebrow fiction and social change [PDF]
, 2016 In the present article we argue that British middlebrow literature often adheres to conservative plot structures aimed at a generic market, and that its impact in socio-cultural terms requires and rewards scrutiny.
Cornelia Waechter, Kate Macdonald
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Women’s emancipation and Middlebrow culture in the Ljubica P. Radoičić’s novelistic oeuvre [PDF]
Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANUThis paper’s starting point is to examine the evolution of the novelistic oeuvre of Ljubica P. Radoičić (1914–1991), which consists of the novels The Blood Wakes Up (1932), Dana Račić (1938) and One-Storey Houses (1954).
Barać Stanislava
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