Individual‐Based Simulation of the Clustering Behaviour of Epidermal Growth Factor Receptors
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 +2 more
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From crisis to comfort : contemporary bestsellers and the French Middlebrow’s narrative of recovery
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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Middlebrow Studies and Its Discontents [PDF]
A review of Beth Driscoll, The New Literary Middlebrow: Tastemakers and Reading in the Twenty-First Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
Harker, Jaime
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The Philistine Revolution: Ethel Mannin, Virginia Woolf and The Battle of the Brows
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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Know Your Audience: Middlebrow aesthetic and literary positioning in the fiction of P.G. Wodehouse [PDF]
This essay strives to explain Wodehouse’s status as a popular writer, whose work is read with enjoyment by academics, critics and the general reader alike, as resulting from his particular positioning within the literary field, scrutinizing his ...
Einhaus, Ann-Marie
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Page Composing and Lettering Games: Experimentation in Italy in the 1930s
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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'Avarice’ and ‘evil doers’: profiteers, politicians, and popular fiction in the 1920s [PDF]
This article examines the depiction of the profiteer as villain within popular low and middlebrow British novels from the 1920s. It argues that concerns with profiteering persisted in the landscape of popular fiction well after the end of World War I in ...
Grandy, Christine
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Middlebrow Aesthetics: An Explanation and Defense
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
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Who Feels Looked Down Upon? Sources of “Symbolic Violence” in the United States
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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Mental Distress Under Occupation: The Journal of Madeleine Blaess [PDF]
Madeleine Blaess a British doctoral student studying at the Sorbonne was trapped in Paris unable to return home to York for the duration of the Occupation. In October 1940 she began a diary which she kept diligently until September 1944.
American Psychiatric Association +18 more
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