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The culture of cursilería : bad taste, kitsch, and class in modern Spain / Noel Valis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Valis, Noël Maureen, 1945-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kitsch--Spain--History--19th century.
- Kitsch.
- Middle class--Spain--History--19th century.
- Middle class.
- Popular culture--Spain--History--19th century.
- Popular culture.
- Kitsch--Spain--History--20th century.
- Middle class--Spain--History--20th century.
- Popular culture--Spain--History--20th century.
- History.
- Spain.
- Spain--Social life and customs.
- Manners and customs.
- Local Subjects:
- Spain--Social life and customs.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 405 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- Like 'kitsch', 'cursi' evokes bad taste, but it also suggests one who has pretensions of refinement and elegance without possessing them. This title examines the social meanings of 'cursi', viewing it as a window into Spanish history and particularly into the development of middle-class culture.
- Contents:
- On origins
- Adorning the feminine, or the language of fans
- Salon poets, the Bécquer craze, and Romanticism
- Textual economies : the embellishment of credit
- Fabricating history
- The dream of negation
- The margins of home : modernist cursilería
- The culture of nostalgia, or the language of flowers
- Coda : the metaphor of culture in post-Franco Spain.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-391) and index.
- Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, Winner, 2002
- Other Format:
- Online version: Valis, Noël Maureen, 1945- Culture of cursilería.
- ISBN:
- 0822330008
- 9780822330004
- 0822329972
- 9780822329978
- OCLC:
- 50035374
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