The so-called 'Silver Age' of Spain ran from 1898 to the rise of Franco in 1939 and was characterized by intense urbanization, widespread class struggle and mobility and a boom in mass culture. This book offers a close look at one manifestation of that mass culture: weekly collections of short, often pocket-sized books sold in urban kiosks at low prices. These series published a wide range of literature in a variety of genres and formats, but their role as disseminators of erotic and anarchist fiction led them to be censored by the Franco dictatorship. This book offers the most detailed scholarly analysis of kiosk literature to date, examining the kiosk phenomenon through the lens of contemporary interdisciplinary theories of urban space, visuality, celebrity, gender and sexuality, and the digital humanities.
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The 'Silver Age' of Spain ran from 1898 to 1939 and was characterized by intense urbanization, widespread class struggle and mobility and a boom in mass culture. This book offers the most detailed scholarly analysis of kiosk literature, one of the mass culture's manifestations, examined through the lens of contemporary interdisciplinary theories. 
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Illustrations Note on Translations Commonly Cited Literary Collections Acknowledgments Introduction Kiosk Literature and the Enduring Ephemeral  Jeffrey Zamostny Chapter 1 Literary Collections Alberto Sánchez Álvarez-Insúa Chapter 2 Between Secrets and Simulations: Women Writers in La Novela de Noche Carmen M. Pujante Segura Chapter 3 Backward Modernity? The Masculine Lesbian in Spanish Sicaliptic Literature Itziar Rodríguez de Rivera Chapter 4 Literary Medicine, Medical Literature: César Juarros and La Novela de Hoy Ryan A. Davis Chapter 5 Celebrity, Sex, and Mass Readership: The Case of Álvaro Retana Noël Valis Chapter 6 Virtual Álvaro Retana: Recovery and Fandom in the Digital Age Jeffrey Zamostny Chapter 7 Cinema Literacy in Cinema Fan Magazines and the Novela Cinematográfica Eva Woods Peiró Color Section Chapter 8 Technology, Cosmopolitanism, and Female Sexuality in La Novela Semanal Cinematográfica (1922–32) Patricia Barrera Velasco Chapter 9 La Novela Femenina: A Collection by Women Writers in the 1920s Ángela Ena Bordonada Chapter 10 Getting Away with Wife Murder: Article 438 in the Press and Popular Fiction Leslie Maxwell Kaiura Chapter 11 Carmen de Burgos: Teaching Women of the Modern Age Michelle M. Sharp Chapter 12 Sports-Themed Kiosk Novelettes and the Silver Age Debate on Tradition and Modernity Luis F. Cuesta Chapter 13 Joaquín Belda’s “Tourist Postcards”: The Origin and Foil of His Novels (1924–31) Manuel Martínez Arnaldos Chapter 14 Reading and the Street: An Inventory of Madrid Kiosks in 1911 Edward Baker Chapter 15 Modeling Kiosk Literary Collections for the Mnemosyne Digital Library Dolores Romero López, José Luis Bueren Gómez-Acebo, Joaquín Gayoso-Cabada Conclusion Kiosk Literature as a Geography of Cultural Objects Susan Larson
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781783206650
Publisert
2017-03-15
Utgiver
Vendor
Intellect Books
Vekt
812 gr
Høyde
230 mm
Bredde
170 mm
Dybde
26 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
600

Om bidragsyterne

Jeffrey Zamostny is assistant professor of Spanish and director of the minor in gender and sexuality studies at the University of West Georgia. 

Susan Larson is professor of Spanish and Charles B. Qualia Chair in Classical and Modern Languages at Texas Tech University. She is the author of Constructing and Resisting Modernity: Madrid 1900–1936.