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The Iranian Literary Field: An Overview

2021
This chapter first examines the polarisation of the independent and government sectors according to political orientation and explains the history of this division in the Iranian literary field. The next section considers the restrictions to the market, both those internal to Iran (from censorship to material constraints on paper supplies) and those ...
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Cultural capital and the literary field

Cultural Trends, 2006
The literary field has been conceptualized in social scientific work as patterned in particular ways. Historically, popular reading has been linked with contested processes of social change. Tastes for reading have, following Bourdieu, been seen as embedded in continuing processes of distinction and the making of hierarchies.
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Literary and political strategies in a literary field: The case of Tahar Ouettar

The Sociological Review, 2020
This article aims to show the relationship writers have with politics, especially in historical circumstances where the literary field enjoys little autonomy. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory, I use the notion of strategy as a middle point between deterministic and ‘rational choice’ explanations of political stances.
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The Literary Galleries and the Field of Art

2006
Abstract IN 1737, picture dealers were flooding the country with ‘Ship Loads of dead Christs, Holy Families, Madona’s, and other dismal Dark Subjects’. Eight years later, after making this complaint under the name of ‘Britophil’, William Hogarth painted his self-portrait and chose to rest his bust, and therefore his fame, on volumes of ...
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The Stakes of Translation in Literary Fields

Across Languages and Cultures, 2002
This article proposes to examine the stakes of translation in literary texts. Inspired by Pierre Bourdieu's theory of culture, it uses the notions of habitus, field and illusio in the framework of the translation of American literature in post-WWII France.
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Epistolary craft and the literary field

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 2014
This essay examines the epistolary craft of Monica Ali’s bestselling first novel, Brick Lane (2003), drawing on tools offered by Pierre Bourdieu’s model of the literary field. On one hand, the novel’s relation with its source texts, and attempt to forge an adequate literary material for banglabhashi (Bengali speaking) and oral narratives, signals a ...
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Multilingual Literature, Literary Studies and the Literary Field

L'articolo offre una panoramica delle ricerche sul plurilinguismo letterario sviluppatesi negli ultimi decenni ed esplora alcuni dei concetti e degli approcci proposti da studiose e studiosi in questo ambito. Tra gli aspetti affrontati vi è anche una definizione — o, più precisamente, una discussione delle diverse possibilità di definire il ...
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Readers and Critics of the Literary Field

Literaturna Misal
The article focuses on the different typologies of readers and books, as well as on the ways in which readers’ opinions are understood, before delving into the multidirectional influences that occur between authors, publishers, critics, media, social networks, and readers. All these actors are part of a competitive literary field that has its own rules.
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Late Postmodernism and the Literary Field

2005
In recent years, a number of critics have announced the demise of postmodernism. The death notices issue from all points of the critical compass. For some on the left, postmodernism has been primarily an academic ideology that grew out of the despair of the post-1968 generation, a failure of political nerve, and an immense evasion of the continued ...
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Bourdieu and the Literary Field

2020
Jeremy Ahearne, John Speller
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