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Popular History, Postwar Liberalism, and the Role of the Public Intellectual in Richard Hofstadter's The American Political Tradition (1948) [PDF]
This article examines the status of Richard Hofstadter's classic work The American political tradition (1948) as a 'popular history.' It uses documents drawn from Hofstadter’s personal papers, those of his publisher Alfred A.
Witham, ND
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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
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Making the Case for Middlebrow Culture
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
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Linguistic Means of Reflecting Social Differences in British Press
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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Beyond the subversion / containment binary: Middlebrow fiction and social change [PDF]
In the present article we argue that British middlebrow literature often adheres to conservative plot structures aimed at a generic market, and that its impact in socio-cultural terms requires and rewards scrutiny.
Macdonald, Kate, Waechter, Cornelia
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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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Computing low-degree isogenies in genus 2 with the Dolgachev-Lehavi method [PDF]
Let ell be a prime, and H a curve of genus 2 over a field k of characteristic not 2 or ell. If S is a maximal Weil-isotropic subgroup of Jac(H)[ell], then Jac(H)/S is isomorphic to the Jacobian of some (possibly reducible) curve X.
Smith, Benjamin
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Woody Guthrie, American Radical [PDF]
Pamphlet produced by the British Association for American Studies, including a case study on Will Kaufman's "Woody Guthrie, American Radical@ (p. 6)
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La montée en célébrité de l'Académie Goncourt au début du XXe siècle
FR. Cet article propose d’étudier la fabrication médiatique de la célébrité de l’Académie Goncourt dans la première moitié du XXe siècle, ce qui ne va pas sans poser le problème de l’articulation entre la figure du génie, héritée du romantisme du XIXe ...
Marie-Astrid Charlier
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Sypher’s Cipher: ‘Paradoxes of Conduct’ in the Reception of Mannerism, 1954-1973 [PDF]
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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