Kitsch: A Critical Concept

Introduction

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Sessions

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Theodor W. Adorno, ‘Fetishistic Hearing…’

Hermann Broch, ‘Kitsch’, in Gillo Dorfles, Kitsch…

Matei Calinescu, Five Faces of Modernity (1987)

Umberto Eco, ‘The Structure of Bad Taste’ (1965), in The Open Work

Clement Greenberg, ‘Avant-Garde and Kitsch’ (1939)

Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1986)

Dwight Macdonald, ‘Masscult and Midcult’ (1961)

Vladimir Nabokov, Nikolai Gogol (1944)

Susan Sontag, ‘Notes on Camp’ (1965), in Against Interpretation