This volume offers a broad description of the development and
perspectives of literary sociology within the discipline of
comparative literature. It brings together researchers who work
(implicitly or explicitly) within the field of comparative
literature and who opt, methodologically, for a broad approach that
sees literary-theoretical problems as part of more general cultural
issues. Several research options that marked the history of
literary sociology or that can be considered as belonging to its
legacy are presented in this book.
The point of departure is the observation that, in the 60s and
70s, a number of academics were convinced that the discipline of
comparative literature should be organized around a sociological
model. The tendency to consider literary sociology as the
<<pilot discipline>> in comparative literature
persisted until the early 80s. However, the earlier sociological
models gradually lost much of their historical-materialist aura and
began to take the shape of less stringent context-analyses. The
newer forms of literary sociology often entered into an alliance
with semiotics and (post)structuralism or elaborated upon Mikhail
Bakhtin. Alongside this development, there was a tendency within
literary sociology to adopt empirical methods. Moreover,
contemporary literary theory has also witnessed the rise of new
avenues of research that reflect the older literary-sociological
principles.
At the origin of texts in this volume is the eponymous
conference organized by the Belgian Association of General and
Comparative Literature in Ghent (April 6-7, 2000).
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