The Aesthetics of Middlebrow Fiction
Popular US Novels, Modernism, and Form, 1945–75
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2015
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1st ed. 2015
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-54130-7 (ISBN)
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-54130-7 (ISBN)
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 |
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Zusatzinfo | IX, 197 p. |
Verlagsort | Basingstoke |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
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ISBN-10 | 1-137-54130-X / 113754130X |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-137-54130-7 / 9781137541307 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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