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Pierre Bourdieu: sociológ medzi ekonómiou a literatúrou
PIERRE BOURDIEU: THE SOCIOLOGIST BETWEEN ECONOMICS AND LITERATURE

Author(s): Libuša Vajdová
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Ústav svetovej literatúry, Slovenská akadémia vied
Keywords: Pierre Bourdieu; Literary Criticism; Social Sciences; French Modernism

Summary/Abstract: Social and sociological orientation in the contemporary Western literary criticism is one of the most interesting but also most fashioned trends. In his works about literature, Bourdieu represents a trial for reconciliation of structuralist methodology and marxist views in social sciences and humanities becoming one of the motivational sociological and cultural issues. The article maps some of Bourdieu’s opinions and shows a view of possible application of his results in the study of history of literature. Bourdieu’s analysis in the French modernism from the second half of 19th century (Les regles de l’art) opens literary topics for sociological orientation of both theory and empirical research under one condition – to not aply his systematics and terminology in a mecanical way. In connection with the general tendencies to contextual study of literature this seems to change existing traditional approaches in literary history by the contribution of cultural representations of the time in study.

  • Issue Year: 2007
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 66-78
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Slovak