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The Aesthetics of Middlebrow Fiction examines the critically acclaimed, popular novels that were labeled "middlebrow" in the US during the Cold War. This period saw a vogue for the term 'middlebrow,' with articles on the topic in magazines like Harper's and Life; there was even a song about "Middle Brow" taste in Touch and Go, a 1949 Broadway revue. The project treats the middlebrow novel not as marginal but as central to the tradition of American literature. Bestselling novelists such as James Michener, Harper Lee, and Leon Uris were not, as critics often asserted, writing work outmoded by comparison with their modernist peers, but rather adapted the traditional conventions of the novel to represent the modern world. Remake it New treats the "middlebrow" novel as not marginal but central to the tradition of American literature. Bestselling novelists such as James Michener, Harper Lee, and Leon Uris were not, as critics often asserted, writing work outmoded by comparison with their modernist peers, but rather adapted the traditional conventions of the novel to represent the modern world.
American fiction --- Popular literature --- Literature and society --- Social problems in literature. --- Social values in literature. --- Aesthetics in literature. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / General. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory. --- History and criticism. --- History
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Les édifices cultuels catholiques sont le testament d’un passé où la foi chrétienne animait notre société. Pour rendre grâce à Dieu, nos ancêtres n’ont pas hésité à mettre en place des moyens considérables au prix de nombreux sacrifices, afin d’édifier ces monuments aux dimensions hors normes qui aspirent à la transcendance divine. Ces édifices font partie des vecteurs de notre histoire, car ces lieux sont emprei nts des valeurs artistiques et architecturales, qui ont forgé notre société d’Europe occidentale. Une bonne partie des « maisons de Dieu » sont donc des éléments clefs de notre patrimoine bâti qu’il faut à tout prix maintenir, afin de ne pas perdre de vue nos racines. Malheureusement, les églises destinées autrefois à accueillir une foule de fidèles ne sont plus que de grandes coquilles vides aujourd’hui. La conjoncture actuelle, entre la réduction du nombre de fidèles et d’importantes restrictions budgétaires, mène à la mise en danger de notre héritage. Face à cette situation de crise, plusieurs solutions semblent émerger à travers la manipulation. L’originalité de ce travail résidera donc dans l’élaboration d’un système d’évaluation du potentiel patrimonial des églises, sur base d’avis critiques émis sur les études déjà entreprises. Il permettra d’alimenter le débat et constitue une invitation à la poursuite de ces réflexions qui se révèleront essentielles dans les années à venir, où nous allons devoir faire face à la vente de centaines d’églises. Il faudra dès lors disposer d’outil perfectionnés, afin de dresser le profil le plus complet de l’église, nécessaire dans les nombreux choix de transformation auxquels nous allons devoir nous confronter.
Protection du patrimoine --- Bâtiment cultuel --- Eglise --- Gestion immobiliere
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Original critical essays on an iconic American periodical, providing new insights into twentieth-century literary cultureGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748682492','ISBN:9780748682508']);This collection of newly commissioned critical essays reads across and between New Yorker departments, from sports writing to short stories, cartoons to reporters at large, poetry to annals of business. Attending to the relations between these kinds of writing and the magazine’s visual and material constituents, the collection examines the distinctive ways in which imaginative writing has inhabited the ‘prime real estate’ of this enormously influential periodical. In bringing together a range of sharply angled analyses of particular authors, styles, columns, and pages, this book offers multiple perspectives on American writing and periodical culture at specific moments in twentieth-century history.Key Features: Eleven new perspectives on major American writers, including Roth, Cheever, Plath, and Updike, in relation to their first publication contextsReconsiders modern and contemporary American writing and periodical culture, focusing critical attention on commercially successful ‘smart’ magazinesDraws on new research in The New Yorker’s manuscript and digital archivesA distinctive combination of close critical reading and cultural analysis"
American prose literature --- Journalism --- Periodicals --- History and criticism. --- History --- Publishing
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