04299nam 22006972 450 991030663340332120231110230245.01-78694-952-0(CKB)4100000007522833(OCoLC)1084270115(MdBmJHUP)muse82857(UkCbUP)CR9781786949523(ScCtBLL)98eb8601-ab7a-42f0-80df-c1b58cff7bd4(MiAaPQ)EBC6898738(Au-PeEL)EBL6898738(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/36434(PPN)266492320(EXLCZ)99410000000752283320200608d2018|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMiddlebrow matters women's reading and the literary canon in France since the Belle Époque /Diana Holmes[electronic resource]LiverpoolLiverpool University Press2018Liverpool :Liverpool University Press,2018.1 online resource (244 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Contemporary French and francophone cultures ;57Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Jul 2020).1-78694-156-2 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.<b>An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.<br>Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies, 2018.</b><br>This is the first book to study the middlebrow novel in France. 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 tendency 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 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 Époque, inter-war, early twenty-first century), authors (including Colette, Irène Nemirovsky, Françoise Sagan, Anna Gavalda) and the middlebrow nature of literary prizes. It concludes with a double reading of a single text, from the perspective of an academic critic, and from that of a middlebrow reader.Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures French fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismFrench fiction21st centuryHistory and criticismWomenBooks and readingFranceHistory20th centuryWomenBooks and readingFranceHistory21st centuryWomen and literatureFranceHistory20th centuryWomen and literatureFranceHistory21st centuryLanguagesLiterary studiesfictionnovelists & prose writersFranceEnglishFrenchFrench fictionHistory and criticism.French fictionHistory and criticism.WomenBooks and readingHistoryWomenBooks and readingHistoryWomen and literatureHistoryWomen and literatureHistory843.91409Holmes Diana1949-791951UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910306633403321Middlebrow matters2264397UNINA