Middlebrow matters : women's reading and the literary canon in France since the Belle Époque /

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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,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Holmes, Diana, 1949- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2018.
Colección:Contemporary French and francophone cultures.
Temas:
1900-1999
Feminism in literature.
French fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
French fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Social classes in literature.
Women and literature > France > History > 20th century.
Women > France > Social conditions > 20th century.
Féminisme dans la littérature.
Roman français > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Classes sociales dans la littérature.
Femmes et littérature > France > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Femmes > France > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > French.
Feminism in literature
French fiction > Women authors
French fiction
Social classes in literature
Women and literature
Women > Social conditions
Literature.
France
Languages
Literary studies
fiction
novelists & prose writers
English
French
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Reclaiming the middlebrow
  • The birth of French middlebrow
  • Colette : the middlebrow modernist
  • Interwar France : the case of the missing middlebrow
  • The 'little world' of Françoise Sagan
  • Literary prizes, women and the middlebrow
  • Realism, romance and self-reflexivity : twenty-first-century middlebrow
  • Conclusion : Marie NDiaye's femme puissante : a double reading.

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