The status of authors within literary systems: Challenging the canon. An explorative investigation of Alfred Döblin's status within the German literary system in 1997

Rusch, Gebhard

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“…The reality of Ibsen, thus, should rather be understood as realities of Ibsen, which is in line with the theoretical concept as such, namely that reality should be seen not as a brute fact but as a social construction and thus depending on several factors (Rusch 1999). This article contextualized Ibsen's reality in different ways.…”

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Dead Awaken? An empirical study of Ibsen’s presence in contemporary Flemish theater

Vandenhaute¹

2016

Ibsen Studies

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Dead Awaken? An empirical study of Ibsen’s presence in contemporary Flemish theater

Vandenhaute¹

2016

Ibsen Studies

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“…Thus, book sales were tied in directly to the success of non-print presentations. Today, film companies and television networks are capable of greatly enlarging novelists' audiences (Whiteside 1981;Brasey 1987) and keeping their work in the public eye long after their death (Rusch 1999). Educational institutions also mediate the relationship between writers and readers.…”

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The empirical study of careers in literature and the arts

Janssen¹

2001

Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature

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In the last few decades, scholars from a variety of disciplines -(art) history, literary studies, sociology, mass communication studies, psychology, and cultural economics -have contributed to our understanding of production and profession in literature and the arts. Their studies cover different periods and societies and address a broad range of topics which, in one way or another, relate to the work and careers of those involved in the production and distribution of culture. As space is limited, this rich line of research will be reviewed only in part in this article.Primarily, the focus will be on careers in literature and the visual arts, although occasionally attention will also be paid to other (both artistic and non-artistic) occupations, because such comparisons have yielded useful insights in the past.Secondly, this article focuses on writers and artists; other professionals in the field of art and literature, including publishers, editors, agents, dealers, critics, and reviewers will be discussed mainly in terms of how they affect the work and careers of writers and artists. We have restricted our focus in this way for reasons of brevity, but also because there is a relative absence of systematic, empirical research into such 'para-artistic' occupations and their practitioners, especially for the postwar period.Thirdly, this contribution will deal with the work of writers and other artists in a thematic fashion, rather than focusing on the gamut of theoretical perspectives and approaches in this area. The following sections shed light on the changing support structures on which writers and artists have depended for their livelihood and to gain other types of recognition for their work (section 2), the various ways in which mediators shape individual works and whole careers (section 3), the characteristics of artistic occupations and their implications (section 4), and the recruitment and career development of artists (section 5). The article concludes with some comments on the state-of-the-art of research on artistic work and careers.Of course, the above topics and questions were not picked at random. They stem from several theoretical perspectives and research traditions that were developed by empirically oriented sociologists of literature and the arts from the 1970s onwards, including the production-of-culture perspective (Peterson 1994); the empirical study of literature and literary systems theory (Schmidt 1980(Schmidt ,1993(Schmidt and 1998; art world research (Becker 1982;Gilmore 1990); and field theory, also referred to as the institutional analysis of the field of cultural (literary) production (Bourdieu 1993;Van Rees 1983). Although these approaches have different points of departure, employ different concepts and methodologies, and focus on different aspects of the production of art and literature, there are no clear-cut divisions between them. Many individual researchers and studies, with good reason, can be and have been considered to be representative of more than one approach. It lies out...

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Art world on stage: Analyzing the social logic of literary realities and aesthetic dispositions in the contemporary Flemish theatre world

Roose

Vandenhaute

2010

Poetics

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The status of authors within literary systems: Challenging the canon. An explorative investigation of Alfred Döblin's status within the German literary system in 1997

Cited by 5 publications

References 8 publications

Dead Awaken? An empirical study of Ibsen’s presence in contemporary Flemish theater

Dead Awaken? An empirical study of Ibsen’s presence in contemporary Flemish theater

The empirical study of careers in literature and the arts

Art world on stage: Analyzing the social logic of literary realities and aesthetic dispositions in the contemporary Flemish theatre world

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