The Rules of Art : Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field / Pierre Bourdieu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bourdieu, Pierre, Author.

Series:

Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (432 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Translator's Preface

Preface

Acknowledgements

PROLOGUE: Flaubert, Analyst of Flaubert: A Reading of Sentimental Education

PART I. Three States of the Field

1. The Conquest of Autonomy: The Critical Phase in the Emergence of the Field

2. The Emergence of a Dualist Structure

3. The Market for Symbolic Goods

PART II. Foundations of a Science of Works of Art

I. Questions of Method

2. The Author's Point of View: Some General Properties of Fields of Cultural Production

Appendix: Field Effect and Forms of Conservatism

PART III. To Understand Understanding

1. The Historical Genesis of the Pure Aesthetic

2. The Social Genesis of the Eye

3. A Theory of Reading in Practice

DA CAPO. Illusion and the Illusio

POSTSCRIPT. For a Corporatism of the Universal

Notes

Index of Names

Subject Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022)

ISBN:

1-5036-1586-3

OCLC:

1294424760