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

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.

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.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed April 21, 2020).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-200) and index.

English.

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