The aesthetics of middlebrow fiction : popular US novels, modernism, and form, 1945-75 /: popular US novels, modernism, and form, 1945-75. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Middlebrow fiction
• Further Information: Note: Tom Perrin.
• Authors: Perrin, Tom, 1979-
• Contents: Machine generated contents note: -- 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.
• Publisher Details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (208 pages)
• Subjects: 813/.509; Semiotics & Theory; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Popular literature -- United States -- History and criticism; Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Social problems in literature; Social values in literature; Aesthetics in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; American/General; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Literature: history & criticism; Literary studies: general
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137523945; 1137523948
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