Iranian Association of Cultural Studies & Communication Society Culture Media 2322-3855 10 40 2021 11 22 Bourdieu’s Work on Literature Contexts, Stakes and Perspectives Bourdieu’s Work on Literature Contexts, Stakes and Perspectives 307 332 140136 FA Arash Hasanpour Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Literature and Human Sciences, Isfahan University, Isfahan, Iran Journal Article 2021 06 23 LITERATURE HOLDS a very important place in Pierre Bourdieu’s work: his notion of field was first applied to literature, while the most complete and systematic presentation of his theory of fields is to be found in The Rules of Art, a work devoted to art and literature. What explanation can be given for the relevance of these objects to Bourdieu’s theoretical work? His interest in art and literature may appear somewhat surprising and improbable at first sight when one considers that for Bourdieu the sociology of culture, in the strictest sense of the term, was just one aspect of a much vaster project: a general theory of the ‘social world’. In order to explain Bourdieu’s choice of object, in the first part of this article I will consider the national and international context within which his theory has been built. I will show that in the French intellectual space, particularly in that period, literature was a central theoretical object. In the international context, the attention paid to literature was justified by the importance given to the symbolic phenomena in the main contemporary theoretical traditions. LITERATURE HOLDS a very important place in Pierre Bourdieu’s work: his notion of field was first applied to literature, while the most complete and systematic presentation of his theory of fields is to be found in The Rules of Art, a work devoted to art and literature. What explanation can be given for the relevance of these objects to Bourdieu’s theoretical work? His interest in art and literature may appear somewhat surprising and improbable at first sight when one considers that for Bourdieu the sociology of culture, in the strictest sense of the term, was just one aspect of a much vaster project: a general theory of the ‘social world’. In order to explain Bourdieu’s choice of object, in the first part of this article I will consider the national and international context within which his theory has been built. I will show that in the French intellectual space, particularly in that period, literature was a central theoretical object. In the international context, the attention paid to literature was justified by the importance given to the symbolic phenomena in the main contemporary theoretical traditions.

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