Bourdieu and Literature. / John R.W. Speller.
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.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Positions. The field of reception
- The field of production
- Lévi-Strauss and structuralism
- The death of intellectuals
- Post-structuralism
- Appendix: the composition of Les Règles de l'art
- 2. Methods. Epistemological preliminaries
- The author's point of view
- The field of power
- The literary field
- Habitus and trajectory
- The space of possibilities
- World literary space
- Appendix: reflexivity and reading
- 3. Autonomy. The 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. The 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.