Practice question · Put in order
Arrange these interventions in the sociology and reception of literature by date.
- Jauss, the Konstanz lecture on reception (1967)
- Iser, The Act of Reading (1976)
- Escarpit, Sociologie de la littérature (1958)
- Bourdieu, The Rules of Art (1992)
- Moretti, Conjectures on World Literature (2000)
Hints
- The French sociology of literature comes first.
- Distant reading is the most recent of the five.
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- Escarpit, Sociologie de la littérature (1958)
- Jauss, the Konstanz lecture on reception (1967)
- Iser, The Act of Reading (1976)
- Bourdieu, The Rules of Art (1992)
- Moretti, Conjectures on World Literature (2000)
Why
The sequence moves outward: from the sociology of the book trade, to the reader, to the act of reading, to the field of production, to the whole published archive. Each step widens what counts as evidence about literature.
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