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Bourdieu and literature

[...] 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, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 20.4 (2012): 555-56

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.

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Series Title
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Call Number
801.3 SPE b
Publisher
Cambridge : Open Book Publishers.,
Collation
203p.
Language
English
ISBN/ISSN
9781906924447
Classification
801.3
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Media Type
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Edition
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Subject(s)
Literature--Philosophy
Literature
Literature and society
Bourdieu, Pierre, 1930-2002
Sociologists
France
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https://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/80
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