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Literature and Social Practice (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,121
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Literature and Social Practice (Hardcover): Philippe Desan, Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson, Wendy Griswold

Literature and Social Practice (Hardcover)

Philippe Desan, Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson, Wendy Griswold

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"The sociology of literature, in the first of many paradoxes, elicits negations before assertions," write the editors of this volume. "It is not an established field or academic discipline. . . . Yet none of these limitations affect the vitality and rigor of the larger enterprise."
Convinced that literature and society are essentially related to each other, the contributors to this collection attempt to define the various sociological practices of literature and to give expression to this enterprise and the commitments of its partisans. In various ways, the essays assembled here seek to integrate text, institution, and individual (both author and critic) as necessary parts of the analysis of literature. Diverse, sometimes contradictory approaches to literature (Marxism, publishing history, new historicism, and others) are utilized as the contributors explore such topics as text, author-function, and appropriation; the reality of representation; the sociology of exchange; the uses of "serious" fiction; poetry and politics; publishing history; and the literary field.

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Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: May 1989
First published: May 1989
Editors: Philippe Desan • Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson • Wendy Griswold
Dimensions: 230 x 160 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-14341-5
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Sociolinguistics
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > General
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LSN: 0-226-14341-4
Barcode: 9780226143415

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