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Par tous les moyens : territoire du milieu et champ de forces

Belphégor, 2017
The paper suggests ways to discuss the so-called middlebrow debates in the context of French literature. It attempts to understand it as a force field.
Paul Bleton
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From crisis to comfort : contemporary bestsellers and the French Middlebrow’s narrative of recovery

Belphégor, 2017
The present article proposes an account of the contemporary French Middlebrow through the study of a corpus of bestselling novels. I identify a recurring motif in the bestsellers of the Sarkozy years (2007-2012), a political period marked by debates on ...
Annamma Varghese
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Individual‐Based Simulation of the Clustering Behaviour of Epidermal Growth Factor Receptors

Scientific Programming, Volume 12, Issue 1, Page 25-43, 2004., 2004
This paper describes ongoing work on a project to simulate the behaviour of epidermal growth factor receptors. These are structures which can be found on the surface of cells in the body, which receive and process chemical signals concerned with cell growth.
Jacki P. Goldman, William J. Gullick, Colin G. Johnson   +2 more
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Page Composing and Lettering Games: Experimentation in Italy in the 1930s

Authorship, 2012
The objective of this article is to analyze how or in what ways the most advanced visual experiments centred on “the book” as an object in the period between 1900 and 1930 in Italy, in particular in relation to the development of middlebrow literature ...
Sarah Bonciarelli
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The Philistine Revolution: Ethel Mannin, Virginia Woolf and The Battle of the Brows

English Literature
The language of the Brows – highbrow, middlebrow and lowbrow – has continued to shape how we think and talk about literature today, with middlebrow remaining the most contested and debated of the three.
Timlin, Carrie
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Middlebrow Aesthetics: An Explanation and Defense

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
wiley   +1 more source

Comparative Cantillon effects in the Canadian and Australian art markets

Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, Volume 59, Issue 2, Page 774-795, May 2026.
Abstract As far back as 1755, Richard Cantillon analyzed how changes in the money supply affected relative prices in the economy. In times of monetary infusion, prices of certain types of goods and services could be expected to rise, depending upon the initial distribution of the money and therefore initial spending.
Douglas J. Hodgson, Cameron M. Weber, Bronwyn Coate   +2 more
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Who Feels Looked Down Upon? Sources of “Symbolic Violence” in the United States

Sociological Inquiry, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 87-108, February 2026.
This paper explores the factors increasing the chances of thinking one's cultural tastes and interests would be looked down upon by others, a sentiment put under the label of “symbolic violence” by Pierre Bourdieu. Using data from a survey fielded in the US in 2017–18 (n = 2,514), it examines the role of social position, lifestyle, family status and ...
Will Atkinson
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The impeccable taste of a publisher: Literary prizes and cultural value from a publishing perspective

Orbis Litterarum, Volume 80, Issue 4, Page 423-436, August 2025.
Abstract The article discusses the complex relationship between publishers and literary prizes in terms of production, marketing, and the value of literary prizes. The main argument is that publishers are instrumental not only in the creation process of literary fiction receiving prizes but also in using the values adhered to awards and nominations for
Ann Steiner
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Mainstreaming the Avant-Garde: Modernism in Life Magazine (New York, 1883–1936)

Journal of European Periodical Studies, 2016
This paper explores the relationship between literary modernism and mainstream culture within a little-studied American magazine, Life (New York, 1884-1936). It does so by looking at three ways in which Life presented modernism to its readers: by quoting
Marianne Van Remoortel
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