Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 10:10:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: ROBERT LUCIE <robert.lucie-AT-uqam.ca>
Subject: Re: "peripheral" literary fields




Denis Saint-Jacques and Alain Viala have published an article in the
French journal Les Annales (1994) on the problems of using the concept of
=C7field=C8 to describe eighteenth-century literature both in Quebec and
France.

Lucie Robert
Departement d'etudes litteraires
Universite du Quebec a Montreal

On Thu, 20 Jun 1996, Bridget Fowler wrote:

> >=09I have been working on Bourdieu's literary field for some time.
> >My purpose is to see how the concept and its rationale can be applied to
> >literary systems different from French lit., to which Bourdieu dedicates
> >most
> >of his analytical efforts ("Les regles de l'art"). I wonder if anyone out
> >there (specially in Quebec) is articulating any work on peripheral,
> >marginal, minor... "literary fields". I would very much like to contrast
> >some of my initial findings on Galician literary field with
> >similar experiences.  
> >=09xoan gonzalez-millan
> >=09hunter college-cuny
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> >I am also concerned with this issue, especially in the context of Scotland
> as a peripheral literary field. I have written about the Scottish
> Renaissance (especially in the inter-war years) in the last chapter of a
> book that is due out in November, entitled Pierre Bourdieu and Cultural
> Theory (Sage). It seems to me that the aestheticist assumptions that are
> made by Bourdieu about the post-heroic modernist period after Baudelaire,
> Manet and Flaubert, should be questioned when the  avant-garde of the
> peripheral field is under discussion. This particularly applies where
> subaltern strata of a peripheral nation are developing new forms of literary
> expression.
> >
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