Sociology of Literature & Drama

Sociology of Literature and Drama. Selected Readings. Edited by Elizabeth and Tom Burns. Penguin Education, 1973

Stempel: Herbert Jaumann

Contents

Introduction 9

Part One

The Sociological Perspective 31

1 Michel Zeraffa (1972) The Novel as Literary Form and as Social Institution 35

2 Harry Levin (1945-6) Literature as an Institution 56

3 Georges Gurvitch (1955) The Sociology of the Theatre 71

4 Jean Duvignaud (1965) The Theatre in Society: Society in the Theatre 82

5 René Girard (1961) From 'The Divine Comedy' to the Sociology of the Novel 101

6 Lucien Goldmann (1967) 'Genetic Structuralism' in the Sociology of Literature 109

Part Two

The Critical Perspective 125

7 Kenneth Burke (1941) Literature as Equipment for Living 129

8 Northrop Frye (1970) The Social Context of Literary Criticism

9 George Steiner (1958) Marxism and the Literary Critic 159

10 J. Tynianov (1927) The Evolution of Literature 179

11 Roland Barthès (1964) Literature as Rhetoric 191

Part Three

The Fictive and the Social World 199

12 Claude Lévi-Strauss (1967) The Story of Asdiwal 203

13 Claude Lévi-Strauss (1968) From Cyclical Structure in Myth to Serial Romance in Modern Fiction 207

14 Frank Kermode (1967) Literary Fiction and Reality 214

15 Ian Watt (1951) 'Robinson Crusoe' as a Myth 226

16 Alfred Schutz (1964) ' Don Quixote' and the Problem of Reality 251

17 Martin Price (1968) The Other Self: Thoughts about Character in the Novel 260

18 Georg Lukács (1969) Approximation to Life in the Novel and the Play 280

19 Frances Yates (1969) The Theatre as Moral Emblem 296

20 Georg Simmel (c. 1898) On the Theory of Theatrical Performance 304

21 Lucien Goldmann (1955) The Moral Universe of the Playwright 311

Part Four

Social Processes and Individual Strategies 319

22 Jane Harrison (1913) From Ritual to Art 323

23 Raymond Williams (1970) Dickens and Social Ideas 328

24 Elizabeth Burns (1972) Conventions of Performance 348

25 Robert Escarpit (1961) 'Creative Treason' as a Key to Literature 359

26 Bertolt Brecht (1963) Binocular Vision in the Theatre: The Alienation Effect 368

27 Renato Poggioli (1968) The Concept of the Avant-Garde 375

28 Eduardo Sanguineti (1967) The Sociology of the Avant-Garde 389

Part Five

Readers and Audiences 399

29 Ian Watt (1957) The Reading Public and the Rise of the Novel 402

30 Erich Auerbach (1958) The Emergence of a Literary Public in Western Europe 418

31 Edmond Goblot (1925) Cultural Education as a Middle-Class Enclave 433

32 William J. Baumol and William G. Bowen (1966) The Audience - Some Face-Sheet Data 445

33 D. W. Harding (1968) Practice at Liking: A Study in Experimental Aesthetics 471

Further Reading 489 Acknowledgements 499 Author Index 501