| Titre | Le champ littéraire | |
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| Auteur | Pierre Bourdieu | |
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Revue | Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales |
| Numéro | vol. 89, no. 1, 1991 Le champ littéraire | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Le champ littéraire |
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| Page | 3-46 | |
| Résumé anglais |
The Literary Pleid This text the theoretical summary of extensive empirical research puts forward the foundations of method of analysis of cultural works and more especially here of literary works There are three stages analysis of the position of the field of cultural production within the field of power which here leads one to clarify the ambiguous position of conservative intellectuals who are temporally dominant but symbolically dominated within space that is itself dominated analysis of the structure and functioning of the literary field itself and finally analysis of the trajectories of writers within this spaces The literary field being relatively autonomous is shaped by the competition between two indépendant and even antagonistic principles of hierarchization an internal principle -the symbolic capital associated with peer recognition- and an external principle the economic and political capital accruing from wordly success It is the site of constant struggles not least over the conditions of participation in the struggle i.e over the limits of the field itself Contrary to the neo-Marxist view of Lukacs or Goldman) which directly relates the space of literary works to the social space as whole or the neo-Hegelian view of Tynianov or Foucault) which gives complete autonomy to the system of works seen as evolving over time in accordance with its own logic it is the field unterstood as space of positions which countains the principle of the space of position-takings i.e of the strategies aimed at transforming or conserving the field But the game itself the value of the stakes and therefore the struggles to win them exist and persist only through the investment in the game which the game itself endlessly produces and reproduces For an adequate understanding of literary works one therefore has to consider both the space of the possibles available to each writer at given moment in the history of the field what is possible stylistically formally etc.) and the dispositions towards these possibles that he owes to his position in the field and to the trajectory which has brought him there The effect of social origin is never exerted directly and mechanically but is mediated by the whole history of the field Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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