More Than a Product: Strengthening Literature in Sociological Analysis

VÁŇA, Jan. More Than a Product: Strengthening Literature in Sociological Analysis. In 13th Conference of the European Sociological Association. 2017.

Základní údaje

Originální název

More Than a Product: Strengthening Literature in Sociological Analysis

Název anglicky

More Than a Product: Strengthening Literature in Sociological Analysis

Autoři

VÁŇA, Jan

Vydání

13th Conference of the European Sociological Association, 2017

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Další údaje

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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Ne

Klíčová slova anglicky

cultural sociology, structural hermeneutics, sociology of literature, aesthetics, field theory

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

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Anotace

V originále

Literature is more than a reflection of social structure. Literary texts communicate emotions to the reader by means of their aesthetical function. Demonstrating the importance of aesthetics in the sociological analysis of literature, (1) I summarize the historical development of social knowledge which is usually referred to as “sociology of literature”. (2) I discuss the uses and limits of the dominant Bourdieusian approach towards literature. (3) Building on the strong program of cultural sociology, I provide an outline of the concept of iconicity and the phenomenology of reading to sketch a novel approach in the sociology of literature, which is explanatorily powerful, but also sensitive to meaning structures as well as the reading experience of literary texts. In the final chapter, (4) I demonstrate this approach in analyzing the novel Sister by Czech writer Jáchym Topol, a literary reflection on (and not just of) the Velvet Revolution.

Anglicky

Literature is more than a reflection of social structure. Literary texts communicate emotions to the reader by means of their aesthetical function. Demonstrating the importance of aesthetics in the sociological analysis of literature, (1) I summarize the historical development of social knowledge which is usually referred to as “sociology of literature”. (2) I discuss the uses and limits of the dominant Bourdieusian approach towards literature. (3) Building on the strong program of cultural sociology, I provide an outline of the concept of iconicity and the phenomenology of reading to sketch a novel approach in the sociology of literature, which is explanatorily powerful, but also sensitive to meaning structures as well as the reading experience of literary texts. In the final chapter, (4) I demonstrate this approach in analyzing the novel Sister by Czech writer Jáchym Topol, a literary reflection on (and not just of) the Velvet Revolution.