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Art History, Volume 46, Issue 1, Page 102-123, February 2023., 2023 Histories of settler colonial art galleries have tended to present these institutions as distant attempts to replicate British models. This essay argues that settler/Indigenous interactions, and the violent dispossession of Indigenous peoples, were fundamental to the formation of settler colonial art galleries, through a case study of the 1880s ...
Kate Nichols
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History and Theory, Volume 61, Issue 3, Page 371-390, September 2022., 2022 ABSTRACT Modernity held sacred the aspirational formula of the open future: a promise of human determination that doubles as an injunction to control. Today, the banner of this plannable future is borne by technology. Allegedly impersonal, neutral, and exempt from disillusionment with ideology, belief in technological change saturates the present ...
Sun‐ha Hong
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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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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.
Tak Wing Chan +3 more
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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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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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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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, 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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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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