Literary Sociology: Some Introductory Notes

Subverting Sociologic? Two Annotated Poems for a More Literary, Poetic Sociology

“…'Literary sociology' as a phrase has appeared in sociology circles though with an unsatisfactory and insufficient ring. It has been used interchangeably with 'sociology of literature' fed with bits of literary history: beginning with the positivists to the Reader Response Aestheticians, all are literary sociologists (Miles 1975). Or, it has been taken to stand for socially oriented textual criticism (Tanselle 1991: 85), where the textconceived to have been exorcised from the intentions of the original single authorreaches the reader as a collective product bearing the marked imprint of many collaborators hinged in between (ibid.…”