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

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 405 pages) : illustrations Series e-Duke books scholarly collection. 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 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 Analysis Kitsch España Historia Siglo XIX Clases medias España Historia Siglo XIX Cultura popular España Historia Siglo XIX Kitsch España Historia Siglo XX Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-391) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject 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 POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General. Kitsch Manners and customs Popular culture Middle class Kitsch. Middenklassen. Letterkunde. Spaans. SUBJECT Spain -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85126186 Subject Spain Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2002008829 ISBN 9780822384281 0822384280 1282920537 9781282920538 9786612920530 661292053X

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