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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Middlebrow"”.
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Comedy and the middlebrow novel :Elizabeth Taylor and Elizabeth von Arnim.
… Taylor (1912-1975) as part of a 'feminine middlebrow'. They are frequently read as offering merely light entertainment and an implicit endorsement of a conservative status quo, and I argue that this is because their depiction of the pain of life and their challenges to the status quo are …
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The authenticity of the middlebrow : Warwick Deeping and cultural legitimacy, 1903-1940.
… structures of taste implied by the term 'middlebrow' were negotiated by the bestselling novelist, Warwick Deeping, 1877-1950. Deeping is my focus for three reasons: he was immensely popular; his popularity was perceived by such critics as Q. D. Leavis as a threat to the 'sensitive …
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Appealing to the Middlebrow Reader: Changes Made to Richard Wright's Black Boy
This thesis focuses on Richard Wright's autobiography Black Boy (American Hunger) A Record of Childhood and Youth. The book's original format underwent a couple of major changes in order to be accepted by The Book-of-the-Month Club, which were the elimination of the entire second half dealing with …
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The construction of Anglo-Indian spaces in middlebrow works of Raj fiction, 1880-1914
… that these texts are part of the conservative middlebrow genre, the thesis argues that Raj fiction functioned as a form of anxiety management, containing and resolving anxieties around about the place of European women in the Raj and of a broader imperial decline. Each chapter of the thesis …
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Middlebrow Modernism: Professional Writing, Genre, and the Circulation of Cultural Authority in U.S. Mass Culture, 1913--1932
"This project investigates the role of middlebrow culture in creating an understanding of the term ""modernism"" for its readers. Middlebrow culture consists of those institutions and writers who taught readers the bounds of ""high"" art and literature beginning with the rise of U.S. mass culture …
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'The Saga of a Whole People': Louis Golding's Rendering of Ashkenazi Jewish Experience in the Doomington Novels 1920-1954
… he has clear significance as an Anglo-Jewish middlebrow writer who presented key aspects of twentieth-century Ashkenazi Jewish experience to a general as well as a Jewish popular readership. Furthermore, it argues that the ‘Doomington’ novels, produced between 1921 and 1954, reveal Golding’s …
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Web of words : poetry, fandom and globality
… selected theoretical work relating to new media, middlebrow culture, reception theory, postcolonial studies and globalization.
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Modernism and the American system: standardization, ugliness, literature, 1900-1930
… various traditions (social realism, avant-garde, middlebrow, Harlem Renaissance) negotiated this new cultural terrain, my project expands the field of modernism while providing cultural and aesthetic links that integrate these traditions into one cohesive narrative of literary production during …
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PEN International and its Republic of Letters, 1921-1970
… liberal, humanistic, and aesthetically middlebrow definition of literature and its social role. By claiming its values were universal, giving them institutional expression, and attracting the attention of funders and competing governments during the Cold War, PEN helped make liberal …
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Made for TV monsters : how has the rise of horror on US television affected the spectacle and acceptability of the genre?
… will consider the rise of horror from lowbrow to middlebrow, and the merging of the gratuitous slasher film and pop culture US television. Examining how the TV horror text is impacted by the industrial conditions, the case studies will explore the developing spectacle and acceptability of the …
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Fiction-criticism in interwar England: Judgment, gender, and the pluralist public sphere
… intelligent, and conversant with high and middlebrow conventions allowed it to capture and speak to a wide readership from varying classes and cultural backgrounds. In doing so, the genre promoted dialogue between citizens with different tastes, outlooks, and even value systems and …
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It Girls and Old Maids: Satiric Wit and the Single Woman in the Anglo-American Novel (1918-1958)
… the 1960s, the British and American “modernist middlebrow” novels I examine both challenge and align with literary convention; they each take on traditional subjects for women’s novels, yet their narrative strategies and use of satiric humor set them apart from literature which conforms to …
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The Bridges of Madison County and Iowa: Production, Reception, and Place
… sub-literary qualities with its Iowa origins, middlebrow readership, and even cultural disease. Readers, however, identified with and participated in the novel's realistic frame narrative, which constructed the story and its setting, Winterset, Iowa, as a text and place where true love was made …
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Performing (Non)Profit, Race, and American Identity in the Nation's Capital: Arena Stage, 1950-2010
… scholarship on U.S. regional theatre because of middlebrow anxiety and yet, for that very reason, regional theatre demands attention as a fitting example of the site of struggle over different forms of capital. Located in Washington, D.C., Arena Stage is the ideal case study for both the …
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Midwestern Americanism: Fiction of the 'Middle Border,' 1900-1930
… attention to what has come to be known as the middlebrow when mapping out US literary history. Chapter 1 offers a reading of Booth Tarkington’s Indiana novels and, though a comparison with a fellow Hoosier, Theodore Dreiser, considers the role of the Midwest in the romance versus realism …
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Contexts of cultural capital in collaborative practice in further education.
… status lecturers tend to exhibit popularist to middlebrow cultural affinities. The minority of practitioners who possessed 'highbrow' cultural capital tend to classify as cultural omnivores rather than exhibiting traits solely associated with univores (Peterson 1992, Peterson and Kern 1996). Few …
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Classical music on UK radio 1945-1995.
… – a multi-channel offering of both highbrow and middlebrow music, linked and presented in an accessible way, achieved broad appeal and wide audiences, and realised the potential for this public good. The classical music programming of Independent Local Radio between 1973 and 1990 did the same in …
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Queering Irish Women's Writing in the Twentieth Century
… modernity. Chapter One reads Dorothy Macardle’s middlebrow gothic novels for their critique of the postcolonial carceral state. Macardle’s (re)publication history shows how women writers haunt the mainstream, but are themselves haunted by the violences enacted on racially and sexually Othered …