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The impeccable taste of a publisher: Literary prizes and cultural value from a publishing perspective

open access: yesOrbis 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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Cyrano de Bergerac d’Edmond Rostand, le triomphe du théâtre de genre

open access: yesRecherches & Travaux, 2023
This paper aims to read the success of Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac as the culmination of a literary strategy inscribed in the genesis of the play, the generic choices and the intertextual references with which it is abundantly nourished. Designed
Sarah Mombert
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How to speak to the masses, part II: Hồ Chí Minh as a moral and linguistic exemplar and the dynamics of register formation in 20th century Vietnam

open access: yesJournal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 23-44, May 2024.
Abstract Hồ Chí Minh's extended essay Fixing the Way We Work, written in 1947 after he and other high‐ranking members of the recently formed DRV (Democratic Republic of Vietnam; Việt Nam Dân chủ Cộng hòa), had been forced to retreat from Hanoi to the uplands of Thái Nguyên province, elaborates on organizational and practical problems within the party ...
Jack Sidnell
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The emergence of the middlebrow novel in the Netherlands: the ‘New Novels’ Series of World Library

open access: yesBelphégor, 2017
Presenting the case of the introduction of a series of ‘New Novels’ in 1909, this article analyzes the early beginning of literary midcult in the Netherlands.
Erica van Boven
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Middlebrow Studies and Its Discontents [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
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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Book review of 'Transitions in Middlebrow Writing, 1880-1930' by McDonald, K. and Singer, C. (eds). London, UK, Palgrave Macmillan. 2015. ISBN: 978-1-137-48677-6

open access: yes, 2016
[Extract] Kate Macdonald and Christoph Singer's 2015 collection Transitions in Middlebrow Writing offers a productive intervention in ways of framing middlebrow scholarship by focusing on the interactions between avant-garde and middlebrow cultures as ...
Kuttainen, Victoria
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Somerset Maugham's Failings

open access: yes
Critical Quarterly, Volume 68, Issue 3, Page 52-65, October 2026.
Allan Hepburn
wiley   +1 more source

Un roman de la rumeur médiatique. Événement, suspense et anticipation dans Le Péril bleu de Maurice Renard

open access: yesReS Futurae, 2018
Maurice Renard’s Le Péril bleu tells the story of people who were abducted by invisible aliens. The suspense generated by the progressive revelation of these facts, whose horrifying dimension is growing, is punctuated by press announcements, expressions ...
Valérie Stiénon
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Les voyages extraordinaires de monsieur Maurice

open access: yesRelief: Revue Électronique de Littérature Francaise, 2015
Dekobra se profile en auteur ‘middlebrow’ qui brasse les aventures exotiques et les personnages haut en couleur, plaisant ainsi au public des bestsellers tout en ambitionnant une littérarité prestigieuse.
Sjef Houppermans
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The Power of Reading in the Comic Feminine Middlebrow Novel [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Often overlooked in critical discussions of British Literature produced in the early twentieth century, comic feminine middlebrow novels offer unique insights into the lives of middle-class women in the 1930s.
Rambo, Amy
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