Le “Morand des midinettes”?

Author(s)

  • Jan Baetens

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18352/relief.905

Keywords:

Dekobra, La Madone des Sleepings, Morand, Ouvert la nuit, middle-brow, popular literature, jazz age, didactic function, nationalism

Abstract

This article deals with the notion of “middle-brow” literature and the historical shifts that characterize the reception of “middle-brow” works and authors. Its main example is Maurice Dekobra, world-famous in the interwar period, but mostly forgotten today. The comparison with Paul Morand, a writer of serious faction who was almost immediately canonized, will demonstrate that the frontiers between certain types of popular literature and certain types of high literature are sometimes difficult to draw and subject to many historical changes.

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Published

2015-06-22

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 1 (2015): La Madone des Sleepings by Maurice Dekobra

Section

Articles - thematic dossier

License

All articles published in RELIEF appear in Open Access under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0). Under this licence, authors retain ownership of the copyright of their article, but they allow its unrestricted use, provided it is properly cited.

How to Cite

“Le ‘Morand des midinettes’?” (2015) RELIEF - REVUE ÉLECTRONIQUE DE LITTÉRATURE FRANÇAISE, 9(1), pp. 36–54. doi:10.18352/relief.905.