The Rules of Art

Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field

By:

Pierre Bourdieu

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Hardback

Series:

Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics

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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.

Author Biography:

Pierre Bourdieu is Professor of Sociology at the Collège de France. Stanford University Press has published eight other books by Bourdieu, most recently Free Exchange, with Hans Haacke (Stanford, 1995).

Release date Australia

July 1st, 1996

Author

Pierre Bourdieu

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Contributor

Translated by Susan Emanuel

Pages

432

Series

Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics

ISBN-13

9780804725682

Product ID

27156177

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