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Literary lessons : knowledge and genre in Dutch middlebrow fiction of the interwar years Universiteit Gent KU Leuven
The middlebrow novel has often been characterized as a highly didactic and pedagogical literary form, that aims to combine entertainment with education and instruction. In reaction to the often rather generalizing accounts of the middlebrow novel's pedagogical function, this essay wants to sort out the different types of knowledge that can be involved and the different narrative and rhetorical means that are used to communicate these literary ...
De vie romancée als vorm van middlebrow-literatuur: de opkomst van een subgenre Universiteit Gent
As starting point of our article, we make the assumption that the so-called ‘vie romancée’ should not be seen as a form of biographical writing in the first place, but as a form of the historical novel, although in theory it has always been considered as a renewal of the biography up till now. By looking at the vie romancée as a form of renewal of the historical novel we are, however, able to do justice to the novelistic characteristics of the ...
Theorizing the Middlebrow: An Interview with Nicola Humble KU Leuven
In this interview, Nicola Humble, author of The Feminine Middlebrow Novel (2001), discusses the concept of the middlebrow as it is used in relation to late 19th- and 20th-century literature. She identifies the middlebrow primarily as a marker of the reception of texts and authors in a given cultural system and is especially interested in the hybrid nature of middlebrow literature and in its shifting boundaries with highbrow, avant-garde ...
Extending the Middlebrow: Italian Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century KU Leuven
The aim of this essay is to determine whether the concept of the middlebrow can also be translated to cultural and historical contexts other than the Anglo-American one in which it first originated. More particularly, we seek to investigate whether the term can usefully be applied to the Italian literary scene of the first part of the twentieth century. After a short introduction of the different historical and critical uses of the term in ...
De vie romancée als vorm van middlebrow-literatuur. De opkomst van een subgenre Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Samenvatting - We gaan uit van de veronderstelling dat de zogenaamde 'vie romancée' niet in de eerste plaats als een vorm van biografisch schrijven, maar als een vorm van de historische roman moet worden gezien, hoewel zij in de theorie tot nu toe meestal als een vernieuwing van de biografie werd beschouwd. Door de vie romancée als een vorm van vernieuwing van de historische roman te beschouwen, zijn we in staat om de romaneske kenmerken van het ...
Europese literatuur voor luisteraars verklaard: de radiolezing als vorm van middlebrow-literatuurbeschouwing tijdens het interbellum KU Leuven
Taking its cue from Jakobson's model of the communication process, this article develops a model of middlebrow communication about literature. The possibilities of this model are illustrated by the analysis of a series of lectures oil modern European literature that was broadcast oil Belgian radio in 1936.
Safeguarding Russian culture as a cultural reality or as a cultural construct? The case of the news magazine Illustrated Russia Universiteit Gent
This paper will present some results of my PhD research on the mainstream Russian émigré news magazine Illustrated Russia (Illiustrirovannaia Rossiia, henceforth IR). IR is the ideal test case for the widely accepted idea that interwar Russian émigré culture was largely a preservationist culture, aimed at safeguarding pre-revolutionary and thus truly Russian culture and, hence, Russian identity. The Paris-based magazine, which ran from 1924 ...