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Introduction: European Middlebrow [PDF]
Belphégor, 2017 The term ‘middlebrow’ has a strong negative charge. It suggests middle-of-the-road, compromise and insipidity, middle class in an aspirational and snobbish way. The metaphor on which it is based refers back to the discredited nineteenth-century science of phrenology: a high forehead or brow was believed to denote intelligence, a low one its opposite ...
Diana Holmes
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Literary Lessons. Knowledge and Genre in Dutch Middlebrow Fiction of the Interwar Years
Belphegor, 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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Introduction: Middlebrow London [PDF]
, 2011 This article is available open access through the publisher’s website through the link below.
Hubble, N
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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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Relief: Revue Électronique de Littérature Francaise, 2015 Présentation de Maurice Dekobra dans le cadre de la littérature ‘middlebrow’. L’exemple de la psychanalyse.
Sjef Houppermans
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Humanities, 2023 This paper addresses writer Itsuki Hiroyuki’s 1966 debut novel Farewell to Moscow Misfits through the lens of middlebrow novels, jazz novels, and repatriates.
Takayuki Nakane, Eric Siercks
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‘Out of the shadows? Discovering Mary Warburg’. Review of: Hedinger, Bärbel; Diers, Michael (Eds.): Mary Warburg. Porträt einer Künstlerin. Leben, Werk, München: Hirmer Verlag 2020 [PDF]
Journal of Art Historiography, 2021 This book review discusses the lavishly illustrated catalogue raisonné of the work of Mary Warburg, nee Hertz. Warburg is undoubtedly best known as the wife of art historian Aby Warburg.
Hans Christian Hönes
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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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The Case of John and Juliet: TV Reboots, Gender Swaps, and the Denial of Queer Identity
Open Cultural Studies, 2023 This article deals with issues of diversity and “visibility politics” in contemporary American middlebrow television. The focus here is specifically how the reboots of Hawaii Five-0 approach these issues.
Jenner Mareike
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Transculturalité : Verne, Le Clézio, Ollier, Dicker, Mauvignier
Relief: Revue Électronique de Littérature Francaise, 2015 ‘Transculturality’ : this is the concept that will be our guide for a series of analyses pursuing those of the transculturality dossier in RELIEF 2012-1.
Sjef Houppermans
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