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Somerset Maugham's Failings

open access: yes
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
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
doaj   +1 more source

Know Your Audience: Middlebrow aesthetic and literary positioning in the fiction of P.G. Wodehouse

open access: yes, 2016
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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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
doaj   +5 more sources

Cultures moyennes, carrières d’artiste

open access: yesBelphégor, 2017
Cet article se penche sur l’écrivain Ferenc Herczeg (1863-1954), l’un des premiers représentants de la culture midllebrow hongroise, tombé dans un oubli presque total, pour la raison, notamment, qu’il figure justement dans la vaste zone grise qui sépare ...
Sándor Kálai
doaj   +1 more source

Call for Papers : "Middlebrow Cultures"

open access: yes, 2008
Call for Papers: Middlebrow Cultures University of Strathclyde, Glasgow Tuesday 14th, Wednesday 15th July 2009 Plenary speakers: Professor Ann Ardis, University of Delaware and Professor Phyllis Lassner, Northwestern University The Network was launched ...
Anthony Glinoer
core   +1 more source

Making the Case for Middlebrow Culture

open access: yesJournal of Transnational American Studies, 2010
It is commonly assumed that Caribbean culture is split into elite highbrow culture—which is considered derivative of Europe and not rooted in the Caribbean—and authentic working-class culture, which is often identified with such iconic island activities ...
Belinda Edmondson
doaj   +3 more sources

Ambivalent gentleman-thieves and ‘the Dutch Conan Doyle’: British-based detective fiction in the Netherlands at the start of the twentieth century

open access: yesBelphégor, 2017
This article explores the content and reception of two kinds of British-based detective fiction that were widely-read in the Netherlands at the start of the twentieth century: serialized international pulp fiction (the Lord Lister series) on the one hand,
Alex Rutten
doaj   +1 more source

"Written with a Hard and Ruthless Purpose": Rose Wilder Lane, Edna Ferber, and Middlebrow Regional Fiction

open access: yes, 2015
When Walter Benn Michaels proposed in Our America that "the great American modernist texts of the '20s must be understood as deeply committed to the nativist project of racializing the American" (13), his examination left out popular middlebrow novels ...
Campbell, Donna
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