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John R.W. Speller, Bourdieu and LiteratureOpen Books publisher, 2011Bourdieu and Literature is a wide-ranging, rigorous and accessible introduction to the relationship between Pierre Bourdieu's work and literary studies. It provides a comprehensive overview and critical assessment of his contributions to literary theory and his thinking about authors and literary works.One of the foremost French intellectuals of the post-war era, Bourdieu has become a standard point of reference in the fields of anthropology, linguistics, art history, cultural studies, politics, and sociology, but his longstanding interest in literature has often been overlooked. This study explores the impact of literature on Bourdieu's intellectual itinerary, and how his literary understanding intersected with his sociological theory and thinking about cultural policy.This is the first full-length study of Bourdieu's work on literature in English, and it provides an invaluable resource for students and scholars of literary studies, cultural theory and sociology.Introduction1. PositionsThe field of receptionThe field of productionLévi-Strauss and structuralismThe death of intellectualsPost-structuralismAppendix: the composition of Les Règles de l’Art2. MethodsEpistemological preliminariesThe author’s point of viewThe field of powerThe literary fieldHabitus and trajectoryThe space of possibilitiesWorld literary spaceAppendix: Reflexivity and reading3. AutonomyThe evolution of the literary fieldArt and moneyZola and the Dreyfus affairReversalsAutonomy and value4. Science and LiteratureL’Éducation Sentimentale‘Le démontage impie de la fiction’Cross-oversFiction and realism5. Literature and Cultural PoliticsThe production of the dominant ideology‘La Pensée Tietmeyer’On aesthetics and ideologyA politics of formFor a collective intellectual6. Literature and Cultural PolicyReproduction and distinctionProposals for the future of educationBetween the state and the free marketFor a corporatism of the universalConclusionReferencesIndexJohn R.W. Speller is Modern Languages Coordinator at the Technical University of Łódź in Poland. He is co-editing (with Jeremy Ahearne) a forthcoming special issue of Paragraph, Pierre Bourdieu and the Literary Field (2012) and edits the online resource http://bourdieuandliterature.com