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The Power of Reading in the Comic Feminine Middlebrow Novel

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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Saint-Germain-des-Prés, un mythe de la culture moyenne dans les hebdomadaires des années 1950

open access: yesContextes
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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Literary prizes, women, and the middlebrow [PDF]

open access: yesContemporary 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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Women’s emancipation and Middlebrow culture in the Ljubica P. Radoičić’s novelistic oeuvre [PDF]

open access: yesGlasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU
This paper’s starting point is to examine the evolution of the novelistic oeuvre of Ljubica P. Radoičić (1914–1991), which consists of the novels The Blood Wakes Up (1932), Dana Račić (1938) and One-Storey Houses (1954).
Barać Stanislava
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Extending the Middlebrow: Italian Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century

open access: yesBelphégor, 2017
The aim of this essay is to determine whether the concept of the middlebrow can also be translated to cultural and historical contexts other than the Anglo-American one in which it first originated.
Elke D’hoker, Sarah Bonciarelli
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Le copertine di Pitigrilli. Un fenomeno editoriale tra testo e paratesto

open access: yesIncontri: Rivista Europea di Studi Italiani, 2012
The book covers of Pitigrilli. An editorial phenomenon between text and paratext The subject of the article is the analysis of the literary case of Pitigrilli, one of the most important authors of the middlebrow literature in Italy between the two world ...
Sarah Bonciarelli
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