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Author Speller, John R. W., author.

Title Bourdieu and Literature. / John R.W. Speller.

Publication Info. Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (203 pages)
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Series Online access: OAPEN Open Research Library (ORL)
Online access: OAPEN DOAB Directory of Open Access Books.
Contents 1. Positions. Field of reception -- Field of production -- Lévi-Strauss and structuralism -- Death of intellectuals -- Post-structuralism -- Appendix: Composition of Les Règles de l'art -- 2. Methods. Epistemological preliminaries -- Author's point of view -- Field of power -- Literary field -- Habitus and trajectory -- Space of possibilities -- World literary space -- Appendix: reflexivity and reading -- 3. Autonomy. Evolution of the literary field -- Art and money -- Zola and the Dreyfus affair -- Reversals -- Autonomy and value -- 4. Science and Literature. L'Éducation sentimentale -- 'Le démontage impie de la fiction' -- Cross-overs -- Fiction and realism -- 5. Literature and Cultural Politics. Production of the dominant ideology -- 'La Pensée Tietmeyer' -- On aesthetics and ideology -- A politics of form -- For a collective intellectual -- 6. Literature and Cultural Policy. Reproduction and distinction -- Proposals for the future of education -- Between the state and the free market -- For a corporatism of the universal -- Conclusion -- References -- Works by Pierre Bourdieu -- Secondary sources -- Collectively or anonymously authored works.
Summary This is a wide-ranging, rigorous and accessible introduction to the relationship between Pierre Bourdieus work and literary studies. It provides a comprehensive overview and critical assessment of his contributions to literary theory and his thinking about authors and literary works.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-200) and index.
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Language English.
Subject Bourdieu, Pierre, 1930-2002.
Bourdieu, Pierre, 1930-2002.
Literature and society -- France.
Literature and society.
France.
Sociologists -- France.
Sociologists.
Indexed Term sociology.
structuralism.
reception.
post-structuralism.
literary theory.
cultural theory.
french literature.
science and literature.
pierre bourdieu.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: 9781906924430
9781906924423
ISBN 9781906924447 (PDF)
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9781783740062 (mobi)
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