Lolita in peyton place: highbrow, middlebrow, and lowbrow novels of the 1950s
Auteur :
Pirsig Wood, Ruth
Éditeur :
Taylor & Francis Inc
ISBN :
9780815320616
Date de publication :
1 juil. 1995
Dimensions :
21,6 x 13,8 cm
Poids :
453 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Separating popular fiction into "lowbrow" and "middlebrow," Wood (U. of Wisconsin, River Falls) argues that lowbrow, like highbrow, evolves from folkloric tradition and contains messages about how to find a satisfying niche in the social order. Middlebrow, on the other hand, evolves from myth tradi