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Loading... The Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field (1992)by Pierre Bourdieu
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. After reading his Distinction enthusiastically, I was pretty disappointed by this book. It seems secondary to me, it looks more like an application of his ideas than a development of new ones. ( )
Bourdieus seinerseits interessengeleiteter Versuch, sich zum Verkünder der längst überfälligen soziologischen Wahrheit über die Kunst zu stilisieren, ist um so ärgerlicher, als sein Buch inhaltlich nichts Neues bietet. Es besteht im wesentlichen aus einer Zusammenstellung von kunst- und literatursoziologischen Arbeiten, die Bourdieu seit etwa der Mitte der 60er Jahre zum Teil schon mehrmals vorgelegt und für ihre neuerliche Veröffentlichung nochmals überarbeitet sowie inhaltlich aufeinander abgestimmt hat.
Written with verve and intensity (and a good bit of wordplay), this is the long-awaited study of Flaubert and the modern literary field that constitutes the definitive work on the sociology of art by one of the world’s leading social theorists. Drawing upon the history of literature and art from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, Bourdieu develops an original theory of art conceived as an autonomous value. He argues powerfully against those who refuse to acknowledge the interconnection between art and the structures of social relations within which it is produced and received. As Bourdieu shows, art’s new autonomy is one such structure, which complicates but does not eliminate the interconnection. The literary universe as we know it today took shape in the nineteenth century as a space set apart from the approved academies of the state. No one could any longer dictate what ought to be written or decree the canons of good taste. Recognition and consecration were produced in and through the struggle in which writers, critics, and publishers confronted one another. No library descriptions found. |
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