The Sociology of Literature
Author : Diana T. Laurenson
Publisher :
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 31,35 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Literature and society
ISBN :
Author : Diana T. Laurenson
Publisher :
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 31,35 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Literature and society
ISBN :
Author : Dick H. Schram
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 28,35 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Literature
ISBN : 9789027222244
"The Psychology and Sociology of Literature" is a collection of 25 chapters on literature by some of the leading psychologists, sociologists, and literary scholars in the field of the empirical study of literature. Contributors include Ziva Ben-Porat, Gerry Cupchik, Art Graesser, Rachel Giora, Norbert Groeben, Colin Martindale, David Miall, Willie van Peer, Kees van Rees, Siegfried Schmidt, Hugo Verdaasdonk, and Rolf Zwaan. Topics include literature and the reading process; the role of poetic language, metaphor, and irony; cathartic and Freudian effects; literature and creativity; the career of the literary author; literature and culture; literature and multicultural society, literature and the mass media; literature and the internet; and literature and history. An introduction by the editors situates the empirical study of literature within an academic context.The chapters are all invited and refereed contributions, collected to honor the scholarship and retirement of professor Elrud Ibsch, of the Free University of Amsterdam. Together they represent the state of the art in the empirical study of literature, a movement in literary studies which aims to produce reliable and valid scientific knowledge about literature as a means of verbal communication in its cultural context. Elrud Ibsch was one of the pioneers in Europe to promote this approach to literature some 25 years ago, and this volume takes stock of what has happened since."The Psychology and Sociology of Literature" presents an invaluable overview of the results, promises, gaps, and needs of the empirical study of literature. It addresses social scientists as well as scholars in the humanities who are interested in literature as discourse.
Author : Elizabeth Burns
Publisher : Puffin
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 37,79 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Literature and society
ISBN :
Author : John R. W. Speller
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,13 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1906924422
Bourdieu and Literature is a wide-ranging, rigorous and accessible introduction to the relationship between Pierre Bourdieu's work and literary studies. It provides a comprehensive overview and critical assessment of his contributions to literary theory and his thinking about authors and literary works. One of the foremost French intellectuals of the post-war era, Bourdieu has become a standard point of reference in the fields of anthropology, linguistics, art history, cultural studies, politics, and sociology, but his longstanding interest in literature has often been overlooked. This study explores the impact of literature on Bourdieu's intellectual itinerary, and how his literary understanding intersected with his sociological theory and thinking about cultural policy. This is the first full-length study of Bourdieu's work on literature in English, and it provides an invaluable resource for students and scholars of literary studies, cultural theory and sociology.
Author : Wolf Lepenies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 41,15 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Literature and society
ISBN : 9782735102303
"The theme of this book is the conflict which arose in the early nineteenth century between, on the one hand, the literary and, on the other hand, the scientific intellectuals of Europe, as they competed for recognition as the chief analysts of the new industrial society in which they lived. This conflicts was epitomised by the confrontation between Matthew Arnold and T. H. Huxley, and later in that between F. R. Leavis and C. P. Snow. Sociology was born as the third major discipline, though in many ways it was a hybrid of the literary and the scientific traditions. The social sciences continue, even today, to oscillate between these two traditions. The author chronicles the rise of the new discipline by discussing the lives and work of the most prominent thinkers of the time, in England, France and Germany. These include John Stuart Mill, H. G. Wells, Beatrice and Sidney Webb and T. S. Eliot; Auguste Comte, Charles Peguy, Emile Durkheim; Stefan George, Thomas Mann, Max Weber and Karl Mannheim. At stake was the right to formulate a philosophy of life for contemporary society, and to predict and pre-empt the worst consequences of industrialization. The book presents a penetrating study of idealists grappling with reality, when industrial society was still in its infancy. It will be of interest to those studying sociology and its history as a discipline, but it is equally relevant to other social science subjects which may be said to have arisen at about the same time" -- Back cover.
Author : Robert Escarpit
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 42,64 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : Lewis a 1913- Coser
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 27,51 MB
Release : 2021-09-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781013332562
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Author : Lucien Goldmann
Publisher : Telos Press Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 31,36 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : Jane Routh
Publisher : Keele : University of Keele
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 10,98 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : Milton C. Albrecht
Publisher : Duckworth Publishing
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 27,94 MB
Release : 1970-01-01
Category : Arts and society
ISBN : 9780715605042