Towards a Modern Synergy: Cultural Massification and the Compartmentalization of Books and Publics in Argentina and Brazil (1920-1960).
The article presents the author's views on cultural massification and the compartmentalization of books and publics in Argentina and Brazil. Topics discussed include the process by which publishing houses Claridad, Babel, and Monteiro Lobato sought to integrate the newsstand and the bookstore; how t...
| Publicado en: | Revista Hispánica Moderna (0034-9593) Vol. 71; no. 2; pp. 163 - 178 |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
Dec2018
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| Sumario: | The article presents the author's views on cultural massification and the compartmentalization of books and publics in Argentina and Brazil. Topics discussed include the process by which publishing houses Claridad, Babel, and Monteiro Lobato sought to integrate the newsstand and the bookstore; how this step constituted a key transitional moment in the massification of the literary sphere that gave way to the model "the modern synergy;" and how the modern synergy further weakened the spatial divide and allowed for a defining feature of any massified cultural space to emerge. |
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