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  <title><![CDATA[Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field (Meridian-Crossing Aesthetics)]]></title>
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  <default-description>&lt;div&gt;Written with verve and intensity (and a good bit of wordplay), this is the long-awaited study of Flaubert and the modern literary field that constitutes the definitive work on the sociology of art by one of the world&amp;#8217;s leading social theorists. Drawing upon the history of literature and art from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, Bourdieu develops an original theory of art conceived as an autonomous value. He argues powerfully against those who refuse to acknowledge the interconnection between art and the structures of social relations within which it is produced and received. As Bourdieu shows, art&amp;#8217;s new autonomy is one such structure, which complicates but does not eliminate the interconnection.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The literary universe as we know it today took shape in the nineteenth century as a space set apart from the approved academies of the state. No one could any longer dictate what ought to be written or decree the canons of good taste. Recognition and consecration were produced in and through the struggle in which writers, critics, and publishers confronted one another.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1992</original-publication-year>
  <original-title>Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field (Meridian-Crossing Aesthetics)</original-title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Pierre Bourdieu]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[needs to be read with The Field of Cultural Production... &quot;so smart. so irritating.&quot; (and, so French.)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Nice application of Bourdieu's socio-cultural analysis to literature and art. I find it much easier to read than his earlier writings. It's also very helpful to have numerous concrete examples, as in his extensive consideration of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Gustave Flaubert" title=" Gustave Flaubert"> Gustave Flaubert</a>'s <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2183.Sentimental_Education" title="Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert">Education sentimentale</a>. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68736197">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[On par with Bourdieu's book Distinction. He does two things simultaneously: Engages the 19th-century world of French literature and extends his own ongoing analysis of art and literature as dynamic fields of contest. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Alternately sparkling and stultifying, one needs a great deal of patience to read this book all the way through. I shall return!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[it's resting against a box on my desk]]></body>
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