[ilds] durrell & kitsch

[Marc Piel]

I did the same search as you some years ago. There 
was a french company that had a perfume named 
"Justine". I think it was the same time as the 
film that was never made; probably what is called 
today a marketing by-product. It failed in the 
market place and was abandonned. Sorry I can't be 
more precise.
Marc

J. A. Kobayashi a écrit :
> Wow,
> 
> There was a Justine perfume line?  If so, I couldn't find any trace of 
> it through Google searching,  Does anyone here know more about it?
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Julie
> 
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Charles Sligh <Charles-Sligh at utc.edu 
> <mailto:Charles-Sligh at utc.edu>> wrote:
> 
>     A last observation:
> 
>     I think that Steven Marcus hands down the "kitsch" verdict as a
>     negative.
> 
>     Durrell (and Miller &c.) are not "highbrow" on the order to Joyce,
>     Woolf, and the various American Equivalents of the High Moderns.
> 
>     But does that Marcus verdict really tell us anything new--especially
>     when from early on Miller and Durrell are aligning themselves in
>     opposition to the "high" modern line?
> 
>     The /Justine/ phenom (perfume line and movie) is marvelously kitsch. And
>     Durrell writes his "Minor Mythologies" essay in order to break down the
>     dividing lines between high and low literary art.
> 
>     C&c.
> 
>     ***
> 
>     Charles Sligh wrote:
>      > I wonder what Durrell would make of the term "kitsch"?
>      >
>      > I find one instance of the word in his writings:
>      >
>      >     "In Miller you have someone who has crossed the dividing line
>      >     between art and /Kitsch/ once and for all" (/The Happy Rock/ 3).
>      >
>      >
>      > But what does that sentence mean?
>      >
>      > Based on the matter of the previous sentence and word order, does
>     Miller
>      > leave art (Hemingway, Dos Passos, and Faulkner) and plunge
>     forward with
>      > fearless gusto into "Kitsch"?
>      >
>      > Is that a good thing here?
>      >
>      > By the evidence of the first /Tropic/, I am supposing that it /is/ a
>      > good thing--no more tea cups and doilies and polite library
>     lectures by
>      > professors discussing James Joyce and Virginia Woolf for Miller
>     and his
>      > readers. . . .
>      >
>      >
> 
> 
>     --
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>     Charles L. Sligh
>     Assistant Professor
>     Department of English
>     University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
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