Frost Laura, The Problem with Pleasure: Modernism and Its Discontents
This ambitious study is a welcome contribution to modernist research in that it offers an original discussion of the tensions between highbrow and lowbrow literary production at the beginning of the twentieth century.Laura Frost’s premise is that it is more productive to view the paradigmatic moder...
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Études britanniques contemporaines
2019
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| Summary: | This ambitious study is a welcome contribution to modernist research in that it offers an original discussion of the tensions between highbrow and lowbrow literary production at the beginning of the twentieth century.Laura Frost’s premise is that it is more productive to view the paradigmatic modernist divide between the high/low or elite/popular culture in terms of generative tensions rather than competing dichotomies. In the context of the post-First World War years, mass entertainment, in... |
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