The culture of cursilería : bad taste, kitsch, and class in modern Spain / Noël Valis.

Author/creator Valis, Noël Maureen, 1945-
Format Book
Publication InfoDurham : Duke University Press, 2002.
Descriptionxii, 405 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Kitsch--Spain. --History. --19th century.
Middle class--Spain. --History. --19th century.
Popular culture--Spain. --History. --19th century.
Kitsch--Spain. --History. --20th century.
Middle class--Spain. --History. --20th century.
Popular culture--Spain. --History. --20th century.
Spain--Social life and customs.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [353]-391) and index.
LCCN 2002008829
ISBN0822330008 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0822329972 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks BH301.K5 V35 2002 ✔ Available Place Hold