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Stephanie SieburthPublication Details
BookDuke University Press1994Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PQ6144 .S54 1994 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Dire word of the cultural threat of the lowbrow goes back at least to the ancient Greeks, and yet, Stephanie Sieburth suggests, no division between “high” and “low” culture will stand up to logical scrutiny. Choosing two historical moments of sweeping material and cultural change in Spanish history, Sieburth reads two novels from the 1880s (by Benito P (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
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Contents
- Introduction: The High/Low Opposition and the Spanish Novel
- Ch. 1. Modernity and Narration in Galdos’s La desheredada
- Ch. 2. Separate and Unequal: Literature’s Polemic against Mass Culture in La desheredada
- Ch. 3. Fusion of Genres, Distinction of Genders: A Recipe for Partial Social Change in Galdos’s Tormento
- Ch. 4. Apocalypse Again: Mass Culture, Misogyny, and the Canon in Goytisolo’s Reivindicacion del conde don Julian
- Ch. 5. Beyond High and Low: Carmen Martin Gaite’s El cuarto de atras
- Ch. 6. Martin Gaite, Galdos, Goytisolo: Dialogues on the Role of Culture
- Conclusion: Uneven Modernization and the Conditions of Emergence of the Spanish Mass Cultural Novel
- Appendix: Plot Summaries
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- 082231441x
- 0822314444
- 082231441x
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