Valis / Noel Valis The Culture of Cursilería

Bad Taste, Kitsch, and Class in Modern Spain
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8428-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 424 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Valis, Noël

Noel Valis, Valis

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. On Origins

2. Adorning the Feminine, or the Language of Fans

3. Salon Poets, the Becquer Craze, and Romanticism

4. Textual Economies: The Embellishment of Credit

5. Fabricating History

6. The Dream of Negation

7. The Margins of Home: Modernist Cursileria

8. The Culture of Nostalgia, or the Language of Flowers

9. Coda: The Metaphor of Culture in Post-Franco Spain

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Noël Valis is Professor of Spanish at Yale University. Her previous books include The Decadent Vision in Leopoldo Alas and The Novels of Jacinto Octavio Picón.