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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Valis, Noël Maureen, 1945-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2002.
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.
Kitsch > España > Historia > Siglo XIX.
Clases medias > España > Historia > Siglo XIX.
Cultura popular > España > Historia > Siglo XIX.
Kitsch > España > Historia > Siglo XX.
Kitsch > Espagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Classes moyennes > Espagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Culture populaire > Espagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Kitsch > Espagne > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Classes moyennes > Espagne > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Culture populaire > Espagne > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Espagne > Mœurs et coutumes.
Table of 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.