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Modernism and the Middlebrow [PDF]
, 2023 This chapter focuses on the institutions of middlebrow culture in America, exploring their role in disseminating and also critiquing modernism. The smart magazines, reprint series, and book clubs of the interwar and midcentury period worked to create new
Hammill, Faye
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Looking at men: 1980s middlebrow TV and visual culture
Journal of Popular Television, 2022 This article explores middlebrow culture on early 1980s television and the narrative structures and visual politics employed. The focus lies on Remington Steele (1983‐87) and Magnum, P.I. (1980‐88) as two middlebrow TV series that emphasize the male lead
Mareike Jenner
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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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Hastings Center Report, 2010
If you travel through airports, you can't help but notice it. Jodi Picoult's novels are everywhere. From Charlotte to Kansas City to Los Angeles, airport bookstores are consistently stocked with three or four or more of her most recent heavy volumes of fiction.
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If you travel through airports, you can't help but notice it. Jodi Picoult's novels are everywhere. From Charlotte to Kansas City to Los Angeles, airport bookstores are consistently stocked with three or four or more of her most recent heavy volumes of fiction.
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British Decolonisation and the Female Middlebrow Novel
British Decolonisation and the Female Middlebrow Novel offers the first detailed discussion of middlebrow fiction by women writers who personally witnessed the dismantling of the British Empire, the intensification of the Cold War, and the domestic ...
Wetherilt, Anne
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The Mania of the Middlebrow: Trilby, the Jew, and the Middlebrow Imaginary
2000Abstract IN THE PRECEDING CHAPTER, I attempted to suggest that writers of the high Victorian period inflected the figure of the Jew so as to articulate their own tangled structure of affects about marketplace culture and to negotiate a new place for themselves in that culture-ironically enough, as a version of precisely that ...
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Middlebrow Reading and Undergraduate Teaching: The Place of the Middlebrow in the Academy
2012Numerous negative connotations adhere to the middlebrow, and my students are quick to sustain them. Typically they stress that middlebrow literature is the kind of literature that is not studied in college. More specifically, they tell me that the middlebrow is ‘easy reading’, that it attracts ‘less educated audiences’ and that it is inexplicably ...
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Oxford Art Journal, 1999
Clement Greenberg's fulminations on the commercial 'ersatz culture' of the urban proletariat and petty bourgeoisie in Avant-Garde and Kitsch, that 'debased and academicized simulacra of genuine culture', were directed not just against the official art of the totalitarian regimes and Hollywood films, but also against the arts of the American Popular ...
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Clement Greenberg's fulminations on the commercial 'ersatz culture' of the urban proletariat and petty bourgeoisie in Avant-Garde and Kitsch, that 'debased and academicized simulacra of genuine culture', were directed not just against the official art of the totalitarian regimes and Hollywood films, but also against the arts of the American Popular ...
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Beware the Furrow of the Middlebrow
MFS Modern Fiction Studies, 2006This article examines Winfrey's book club discussion of Toni Morrison's Paradise in order to identify various continuities and gaps between the aspirations of serious literature and the inclinations of middlebrow readers. Many of Winfrey's audience members complain about the text's inaccessibility, thus casting doubt upon Morrison's purported aim: to ...
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Abstract This chapter examines the ways in which publishers attempted to enhance the commercial prospects of the novel in the late twentieth century by fostering the development of a middlebrow reading public through the inclusion of paratextual material such as interviews and “reading group” questions in paperback editions of novels ...
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