Bourdieu and Literature - cover image

Copyright

John R.W. Speller

Published On

2011-11-30

ISBN

Paperback978-1-906924-42-3
Hardback978-1-906924-43-0
PDF978-1-906924-44-7
HTML978-1-80064-454-0
EPUB978-1-78374-005-5
MOBI978-1-78374-006-2

Language

  • English

Print Length

208 pages (208)

Dimensions

Paperback156 x 11 x 234 mm(6.14" x 0.44" x 9.21")
Hardback156 x 13 x 234 mm(6.14" x 0.5" x 9.21")

Weight

Paperback655g (23.10oz)
Hardback1032g (36.40oz)

OCLC Number

941458070

LCCN

2019467810

BIC

  • DSA
  • JHBA
  • 2ADF

BISAC

  • SOC026000
  • PHI040000

LCC

  • HM479.B68

Keywords

  • Pierre Bourdieu
  • literary theory
  • reception
  • sociology
  • cultural theory
  • French literature
  • structuralism
  • post-structuralism
  • science and literature

Bourdieu and Literature

  • John R.W. Speller (author)
Bourdieu and Literature is a wide-ranging, rigorous and accessible introduction to the relationship between Pierre Bourdieu's 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. One of the foremost French intellectuals of the post-war era, Bourdieu has become a standard point of reference in the fields of anthropology, linguistics, art history, cultural studies, politics, and sociology, but his longstanding interest in literature has often been overlooked. This study explores the impact of literature on Bourdieu's intellectual itinerary, and how his literary understanding intersected with his sociological theory and thinking about cultural policy. This is the first full-length study of Bourdieu's work on literature in English, and it provides an invaluable resource for students and scholars of literary studies, cultural theory and sociology.

Reviews

[...] a volume clearly focused on the specific topic of literature within Bourdieu's work is certainly timely. Speller's volume aims not only to provide an account of Bourdieu's main theories and analyses of literature, but also has the polemical aim of refuting critics who suggest that Bourdieu's view of literature, grounded as it is in an analysis of the social relations of the cultural field, is deterministic and reductive.

Helen Finch

"Bourdieu and Literature". Journal of Contemporary European Studies (1478-2804), vol. 20, no. 4, 2012. doi:10.1080/14782804.2012.737678

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Contents

Introduction

(pp. 13–16)
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Positions

(pp. 17–38)
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Methods

(pp. 39–78)
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Autonomy

(pp. 79–101)
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Science and Literature

(pp. 103–129)
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Conclusion

(pp. 185–189)
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Contributors

John R.W. Speller

(author)
Head of Foreign Languages at Lodz University of Technology