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Belphégor, 2022 L’article prolonge les réflexions sur l’américanisation de la presse magazine au Québec durant l’entre-deux-guerres, en analysant dans les périodiques eux-mêmes les rapports entre la rhétorique antiaméricaine, l’axiome national et la moyennisation des ...
Adrien Rannaud
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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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La literatura de “en medio”: el middlebrow como concepto para entender la literatura francesa desde la Belle Époque hasta nuestros días / The “in the middle” Literature: “Middlebrow” as a Concept for Understanding the French Literature from the Belle Époque through the Present Day [PDF]
Çédille: Revista de Estudios Franceses, 2019 Acerca del libro de Diana Holmes, Middlebrow Matters. Women’s reading and the literary canon in France since the Belle Époque (Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2018, 244 p. ISBN978-1-786-94156-5).
Isabelle Marc
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Understanding the social and cultural bases of Brexit*
The British Journal of Sociology, Volume 71, Issue 5, Page 830-851, November 2020., 2020 Abstract We use data from a large scale and nationally representative survey to evaluate two narratives about the social bases of Brexit. The first narrative sees Brexit as a revolt of the economically left‐behinds. The second narrative attributes Brexit to the resurgence of an English nationalism.
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Une littérature illégitime – le « middlebrow »
Belphégor, 2019 L’écart entre la littérature considérée comme « sérieuse », et celle qu’apprécient (selon les palmarès de ventes, les clubs et sites de livres) la majorité des lecteurs « non-professionnels » (Todorov 2007) est considérable, peut-être plus en France qu ...
Diana Holmes
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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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Regions, Maps, Readers: Theorizing Middlebrow Geography
Belphégor, 2017 This article argues that endpaper maps in children’s and adult’s fictions, read in terms of the material contexts of the novels they illustrate and their specific historical contexts, point to new ways of conceiving and organizing middlebrow studies in ...
Kristin Bluemel
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The “Thingness” of the American Middlebrow:
, 2023 In this paper, I examine the ways in which Anita Loos’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby both critique and engage with materialism and consumerism as middlebrow texts. Bill Brown’s discussion of the power and meaning of
Hannah Grace Lanneau +1 more
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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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, 2018 Middlebrow is a derogatory word that connotes blandness, mediocrity and a failed aspiration to ‘high’ culture. However, when appropriated as a positive term to denote that wide swathe of literature between the challenging experimentalism of the high and ...
Holmes, Diana
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