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The culture of cursileria : bad taste, kitsch, and class in modern Spain / Noel Valis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Valis, Noël Maureen, 1945-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- 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.
- Spain--Social life and customs.
- Spain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (423 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Similar to the term "kitsch" but evoking pretensions to elegance, "cursileria" and its role in the cultural life of modern Spain and the subjects of this work.
- Contents:
- On origins
- Adorning the feminine, or the language of fans
- Salon poets, the Becquer craze, and Romanticism
- Textual economies : the embellishment of credit
- Fabricating history
- The dream of negation
- The margins of home : modernist cursileria
- The culture of nostalgia, or the language of flowers
- Coda : the metaphor of culture in post-Franco Spain.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-391) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 12. Dez 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9786612920530
- 9781282920538
- 1282920537
- 9780822384281
- 0822384280
- OCLC:
- 850217400
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