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 > > > >********************************************************************** >Contributions: bourdieu-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu >Commands: majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu >Requests: bourdieu-approval-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu > > Deborah Kilgore Assistant Professor Educational Leadership & Policy Studies Iowa State University N 232 Lagomarcino Hall Ames, IA 50011-3195 office) 515-294-9121 email) dkilgore-AT-iastate.edu ********************************************************************** Contributions: bourdieu-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Commands: majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Requests: bourdieu-approval-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
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