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Abstract Through detailed archival work, this book identifies a coherent intellectual and artistic tradition that critics of the 1940s called “middlebrow.” It began in literary circles in the 1910s as a response to the emergence of modernism, continued to grow and develop through the Second World War, and spread outward into music and ...
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Recognizing the Literary Middlebrow
2014Phrenology, the linking of skull shape with intellectual abilities, has long been discredited as a pseudoscience with racist undertones. Yet the language of brows it inspired — highbrow, middlebrow and lowbrow — continues to influence the way we think about literary culture.
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2013
In a very real sense, there is no such thing as the middlebrow. It would have been extremely hard in the interwar years to find any writer or publisher who would happily apply the label to their own works, and almost as hard to find a reader who would own the designation.
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In a very real sense, there is no such thing as the middlebrow. It would have been extremely hard in the interwar years to find any writer or publisher who would happily apply the label to their own works, and almost as hard to find a reader who would own the designation.
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A Problem of Middlebrow Style: Dialect and Translation in Elena Ferrante’s Naples Tetralogy
Textual Practice, 2022Richard Robinson
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