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Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 06:35:24 -0600
From: Deborah Kilgore <dkilgore-AT-iastate.edu>
Subject: Re: Homology 


<snip>
>it's just not possible to
>churn out a piece if you don't believe a word of what you write, 
>any more
>than you can decide to write a bestseller (in interviews, Jeffrey Archer,
>Danielle Steele, Harold Robbins and the like frequently complain that their
>books are not regarded as literature). That journalists are constrained and
>subverted despite their "good faith" is precisely the point of Bourdieu's
>analysis.
>
In B's framework, even a good faith endeavor to figure out what
"literature" actually means would result in literary disaster for authors
like Steele or Robbins.  With habitus like theirs, I think it's just not
within their range of possible practices.  And they are seemingly not
pursuing art for art's sake.

"With a habitus like yours, who needs enemies?" - How's that for a
Bourdieusian insult?

Smile, Debbie

>Regards
>Simon
>
>
>Regards
>Simon
>
>
>
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