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Linguistic Means of Reflecting Social Differences in British Press

Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2012
The article deals with the main tendencies of modern British newspaper language addressed to readers with different background. Comparing texts in «quality» newspapers and «middlebrow» tabloids allows to reveal linguistic means differing according to ...
V. V. Ignatenko
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Literary prizes, women, and the middlebrow [PDF]

Contemporary French Civilization, 2016
Annual literary prizes began life in 1903 in France with the founding of the Prix Goncourt, and they have proliferated there more than in other nations. Yet prizes are not always greeted by their recipient with unalloyed joy: an “antiprize rhetoric” is part of the standard response for to win the Goncourt, for example, “tient a la fois du banc d ...
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Sypher’s Cipher: ‘Paradoxes of Conduct’ in the Reception of Mannerism, 1954-1973 [PDF]

Journal of Art Historiography, 2019
This essay uses the reception of Wylie Sypher’s widely read, but ill-reputed Four Stages of Renaissance Style: Transformations in Art and Literature 1400–1700 in order to explore the uses and effects of a genre we might call ‘middlebrow Mannerism ...
Jacob Stewart-Halevy
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Developing Middlebrow Culture in Fascist Italy: The Case of Rizzoli’s Illustrated Magazines/Développer la culture moyenne dans l'Italie fasciste: le cas des magazines illustrés de Rizzoli

Journal of European Periodical Studies, 2019
Angelo Rizzoli was one of Italy’s leading publishers in the interwar period and beyond, thanks to his business intuition and daring investments in the popular periodicals sector. In the 1920s and 1930s he published a galaxy of illustrated magazines aimed
Fabio Guidali
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‘Dark, mysterious, and undocumented’: the middlebrow fantasy and the fantastic middlebrow

, 2013
The concept of ‘middlebrow’ literature in the twentieth century, which received minimal critical attention from the Leavises onwards, has recently become a site of literary and sociological interest, especially regarding the interwar period. This thesis considers the ways in which a corporate middlebrow identity, amongst an intangible community of like-
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The middlebrow Spanish Civil War film: a site of mediation between culture and history.

Belphégor, 2017
Films set during or immediately after the Spanish Civil War have a long tradition in Spain, one which spans the entire spectrum of filmic genres, from propaganda to musicals to art-house.
Laura J. Lee Kemp
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These are Just Romances: Love and the Single Woman in the Fiction of Rosamond Lehmann

Journal of Popular Romance Studies, 2011
This article is a comparative analysis of Rosamond Lehmann's Dusty Answer (1927) and The Weather in the Streets (1936). It positions the romance plot of these fictions as part of a wider narrative concerning the single woman in the interwar years ...
Emma Sterry
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'The Wild Women of the West (Midlands)': how LesBeWell imagined queer women's health and its obstacles in the 1990s through the pages of Dykenosis. [PDF]

Contemp Br Hist, 2023
Elizabeth HJ.
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Saint-Germain-des-Prés, un mythe de la culture moyenne dans les hebdomadaires des années 1950

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Through the study of four important weekly newspapers of the 1950s – Paris Match, Radar, L’Express and France-Observateur – this article proposes to explore the representations of existentialism and Saint-Germain-des-Prés, which were totally intertwined,
Marie-Astrid Charlier
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Female Authorship in Modern Fiction: Stevie Smith’s Novel on Yellow Paper (1936) and the History of Fictional Women Writers

Authorship, 2021
This article reads Stevie Smith’s Novel on Yellow Paper in the context of modernist literary authorship and against the historical background of scenarios of female authorship in British fiction. It focuses on strategies of women’s writing as embodied in
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