The Aesthetics of Middlebrow Fiction - Tom Perrin

The Aesthetics of Middlebrow Fiction

Popular US Novels, Modernism, and Form, 1945–75

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Buch | Hardcover
197 Seiten
2015 | 1st ed. 2015
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-54130-7 (ISBN)
89,95 inkl. MwSt
During the Cold War, many popular American novels were labelled "middlebrow," leading to a general belief that these texts held less intellectual merit. Perrin debunks these unfair assumptions through works by James Michener, Harper Lee, and Leon Uris, arguing that such writers made a major contribution to the tradition of American literature.

Tom Perrin is Assistant Professor of Language and Literature at Huntingdon College, USA.

Introduction: Remake it New
1. The Old Men and the ' 'Sea of Masscult ' ': T.S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, and the Middlebrow Aesthetic
2. ' 'It Offers No Solutions ' ': Ambivalence and Aesthetics in the Social Problem Novel
3. Rebuilding Bildung: The Novel of Aesthetic Education
4. The Second-Greatest Stories Ever Told: Middlebrow Epics of 1959 and the Aesthetics of Disavowal
5. Book Smarts: Masochism and Popular Postmodernism
Conclusion

Erscheint lt. Verlag 4.8.2015
Zusatzinfo IX, 197 p.
Verlagsort Basingstoke
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10 1-137-54130-X / 113754130X
ISBN-13 978-1-137-54130-7 / 9781137541307
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