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1 online resource (viii, 244 pages) |
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Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 57 |
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Contemporary French and francophone cultures.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-237) and index. |
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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. |
| Summary |
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 Epoque, inter-war, early twenty-first century), authors (including Colette, Irene Nemirovsky, Francoise Sagan, Anna Gavalda) and the middlebrow nature of literary prizes. |
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Print version record. |
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Feminism in literature.
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French fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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French fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Social classes in literature.
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Women and literature -- France -- History -- 20th century.
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Women -- France -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Féminisme dans la littérature.
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Roman français -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
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Classes sociales dans la littérature.
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Femmes et littérature -- France -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
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Femmes -- France -- Conditions sociales -- 20e siècle.
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
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Feminism in literature
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French fiction -- Women authors
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French fiction
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Social classes in literature
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Women and literature
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Women -- Social conditions
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France https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJd8gD4vdtqQMdQHvYqbBP
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Literature.
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1900-1999
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Languages |
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Literary studies |
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fiction |
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novelists & prose writers |
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France |
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English |
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French |
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Holmes, Diana, 1949- Middlebrow matters. Liverpool Liverpool University Press 2018 1786941562 (OCoLC)1033530958 |
| ISBN |
1786941562 (electronic bk.) |
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1786949520 (electronic bk.) |
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9781786941565 (electronic bk.) |
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9781786949523 (electronic bk.) |
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AU@ 000065060927 |
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AU@ 000066435090 |
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CHNEW 001035497 |
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CHVBK 556239598 |
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DKDLA 820120-katalog:999921552705765 |
