Middlebrow Matters
Middlebrow is a derogatory word that connotes blandness, mediocrity and a failed aspiration to ‘high’ culture. However, when appropriated as a positive term to denote that wide swathe of literature between the challenging experimentalism of the high and the formulaic drive of the popular, it enables...
שמור ב:
| מחבר ראשי: | |
|---|---|
| פורמט: | Online |
| שפה: | אנגלית |
| יצא לאור: |
Liverpool University Press
2021
|
| נושאים: | |
| גישה מקוונת: | 1004081 |
| תגים: |
אין תגיות, היה/י הראשונ/ה לתייג את הרשומה!
|
| _version_ | 1869527694799011840 |
|---|---|
| author | Holmes, Diana |
| author_browse | Holmes, Diana |
| author_facet | Holmes, Diana |
| author_sort | Holmes, Diana |
| collection | Directory of Open Access Books |
| description | Middlebrow is a derogatory word that connotes blandness, mediocrity and a failed aspiration to ‘high’ culture. However, when appropriated as a positive term to denote that wide swathe of literature between the challenging experimentalism of the high and the formulaic drive of the popular, it enables a rethinking of the literary canon from the point of view of what most readers actually read, a criterion curiously absent from dominant definitions of literary value. Since women have long formed a majority of the nation’s reading public, this perspective immediately feminises what has always been a very male canon. Opening with a theorisation of the concept of middlebrow that mounts a defence of some literary qualities disdained by modernism, the book then focuses on a series of case studies of periods (the Belle Époque, inter-war, early twenty-first century), authors (including Colette, Irène Nemirovsky, Françoise Sagan, Anna Gavalda) and the middlebrow nature of literary prizes. |
| format | Online |
| id | doab-20.500.12854ir-36434 |
| institution | Directory of Open Access Books |
| language | eng |
| publishDate | 2021 |
| publishDateRange | 2021 |
| publishDateSort | 2021 |
| publisher | Liverpool University Press |
| publisherStr | Liverpool University Press |
| record_format | ojs |
| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-364342025-07-31T10:59:28Z Middlebrow Matters Holmes, Diana Languages Literary studies fiction novelists & prose writers France English French thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Middlebrow is a derogatory word that connotes blandness, mediocrity and a failed aspiration to ‘high’ culture. However, when appropriated as a positive term to denote that wide swathe of literature between the challenging experimentalism of the high and the formulaic drive of the popular, it enables a rethinking of the literary canon from the point of view of what most readers actually read, a criterion curiously absent from dominant definitions of literary value. Since women have long formed a majority of the nation’s reading public, this perspective immediately feminises what has always been a very male canon. Opening with a theorisation of the concept of middlebrow that mounts a defence of some literary qualities disdained by modernism, the book then focuses on a series of case studies of periods (the Belle Époque, inter-war, early twenty-first century), authors (including Colette, Irène Nemirovsky, Françoise Sagan, Anna Gavalda) and the middlebrow nature of literary prizes. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2019-01-22 23:55 2018-12-01 23:55:55 2020-03-16 03:00:26 2020-04-01T10:56:54Z 2018-10-31 book 1004081 OCN: 1100490961 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/26001 9781786949523 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/36434 eng Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/26001/1/1004081.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/26001/1/1004081.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/26001/1/1004081.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/26001/1/1004081.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/26001/1/1004081.pdf Liverpool University Press 10.2307/j.ctvt1sk8w 10.2307/j.ctvt1sk8w aa5f0a3b-b4a0-4754-9840-b645b364c5ef Knowledge Unlatched b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781786949523 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Select 2018: HSS Frontlist Books Liverpool 102590 KU Select 2018: HSS Frontlist Books open access |
| spellingShingle | Languages Literary studies fiction novelists & prose writers France English French thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Holmes, Diana Middlebrow Matters |
| title | Middlebrow Matters |
| title_full | Middlebrow Matters |
| title_fullStr | Middlebrow Matters |
| title_full_unstemmed | Middlebrow Matters |
| title_short | Middlebrow Matters |
| title_sort | middlebrow matters |
| topic | Languages Literary studies fiction novelists & prose writers France English French thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers |
| topic_facet | Languages Literary studies fiction novelists & prose writers France English French thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers |
| url | 1004081 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT holmesdiana middlebrowmatters |