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Sociology of literature: institutions, circulation of books, social identity of writers, publishers. • Bourdieu: Les règles de l'art. • Symbolical capital. • Style and ...
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literary fiction as an imitation of the real, a blueprint of reality? • Is the only function of a novel a descriptive one? Is a novel just a chronicle of times past? • Objective facts. • History as a narrative, a way of relating certain events, a version of “what happened”. • Braudel:“Les Annales”. history had to be accounted for in broad economical and social terms

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• Historiography, the rereading of official history with a critical eye. • Bloch and Duby: the history of mentalities. The historical world is created out of perceptions, not of events. • Foucault: the “archaeology” of knowledge.

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• Sociology of literature: institutions, circulation of books, social identity of writers, publishers • Bourdieu: Les règles de l’art. • Symbolical capital • Style and aesthetics are determined by social factors ≠ literature as the exclusive domain of imaginative creativeness

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• Lucien Goldman, Foucault (who tried to relate novels to episteme – or categories of knowledge typifying a certain period), Bourdieu (relating novels to the doxa and habitus, that is: preconceptions that force of habit have made transparent) • Althusser and Macherey. • Lukacs, Bakthine • Adorno, Benjamin

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Marxism • Marxism is a social theory of history. • History: result of economic struggles between a ruling class and a working class • In order to be exercised, power must always pretend it is doing something else than what it is actually doing • “ideology”: the sort of discourse the institutions of a society produces to preserve social relationships as they are and, possibly, reinforce them so as to ensure the continued dominance of a ruling class.

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• no neutral ground in literature: either literature is revolutionary (it exposes the horrors of economical subjection and human exploitation) or it is counter-revolutionary • Jameson: Literary works both reveal the underlying material conditions of our lives and obscure them.