Class and the Uses of Poetry

Symbolic Enclosures
2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-66447-2
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 403 g

Reihe: Sociology of the Arts

This book provides new empirical evidence about the ways in which social inequalities, especially those of class, shape and delimit forms of cultural reception and creative opportunity. How does it come about that, in George Orwell’s words, ‘the divorce between poetry and popular culture is accepted as a sort of law of nature’? Drawing on qualitative research conducted in and around Glasgow,  explores how working-class readers engaged with, made sense of, and contested a sense of exclusion from, contemporary poetry. In doing so it sheds light on the symbolic enclosure of poetry, on how that enclosure takes shape in the encounter between readers and poems, but also on why poetry continues to matter. Through these conversations, and in further interviews with unpublished poets, it reflects on the creative and expressive affordances of poetry, on what can be done with poetry and what it can make possible. Sociologists have had little to say about poetry as a distinctive esthetic practice.  tries to break that silence and to make a start on constructing a critical sociology of poetry for today.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

.- Chapter 1 

.- Chapter 2 

.- Chapter 3 

.- Chapter 4 

.- Chapter 5 

.- Chapter 6 A Long Conclusion:

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Smith is Professor of Sociology at University of Glasgow, Scotland. He is the author of two previous volumes published by Palgrave:  (2010) and  (2016). He is the co-editor of  (2018) and has published various articles in journals such as