The Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)

Bourdieu, Pierre; Trans. Susan Emanuel

ISBN 10: 0804725683 / ISBN 13: 9780804725682

Published by Stanford University Press, 1995

About this Item

First Printing in dust jacket, Fine in Fine, no remainder or other markings, a pristine unread copy (dj in mylar protector); 8vo; (xxii) 408pp indexed.

Seller Inventory # 32066

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804725683
• ISBN 13: 9780804725682
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Sociology
  • Art / Design
  • Linguistics / Rhetoric

About this title

Synopsis

Written with verve and intensity (and a good bit of wordplay), this long-awaited study of Flaubert and the modern literary field constitutes the definitive work on the sociology of art by one of the world's leading social theorists.

About the Author

Pierre Bourdieu is Professor of Sociology at the Collège de France. Stanford University Press has published eight other books by Bourdieu, most recently Free Exchange, with Hans Haacke (Stanford, 1995).