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Poetics, 2010
... to 85,126 titles), more than twice as much as in France and Germany (from 10,364 to 31,673 in... more ... to 85,126 titles), more than twice as much as in France and Germany (from 10,364 to 31,673 in France) (Milo, 1984 ... as exchange was being liberalized within the framework of international negotiations, notably the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which reflected ...
How does an author enter the canon of World Literature? This article focuses on the role of publi... more How does an author enter the canon of World Literature? This article focuses on the role of publishers in the access of writers to transnational authorship, based on the example of the French publisher Gallimard. The symbolic capital accumulated by Gallimard conferred to this publisher a consecrating power in the transnational literary field, which was reinforced by the dominant position of the French literary field in the world Republic of letters and its central location in Paris. The first part of the paper provides archival evidence of this consecrating role for authors such as Faulkner and Borges, who were to become key figures of the world modernist canon. However, Gallimard’s central position was challenged starting in the 1950s by two factors: the dominant position the United States had acquired in this international competition, and the growing role of literary agents who fueled the national and international competition between publishers. This evolution is illustrated in the second part of the paper through the case of Elsa Morante.
A B S T R A C T This article proposes a structural history of the transformations of modes of con... more A B S T R A C T This article proposes a structural history of the transformations of modes of consecration in the literary field, taking France as an exemplary case study. My approach combines Bourdieu's field theory with Abbott's analysis of professional development. The mechanisms of consecration must be contextualized within the political and economic constraints that the literary field is subjected to. Because of its relatively weak professional development, the consecrating authorities play a major role in the regulating of the literary field and in the building of careers. This article examines literary institutions which appear in different periods: the Académie française, which obtained its power from the state under the Old Regime; the societies of authors and the publishers, which contributed to the professional development of literary activity with the growth of the book market and the withdrawal of the state from the control of this market; the literary journals as relatively autonomous authorities; the literary prizes that are torn between autonomy and heteronomy (with the Goncourt prize as an example); the role of translation and international circulation in the process of consecration; and finally, the festival as a new form of literary recognition, which reflects the process of democratization (based on an empirical study on Les Correspondances de Manosque).
Poetics, 2010
... to 85,126 titles), more than twice as much as in France and Germany (from 10,364 to 31,673 in... more ... to 85,126 titles), more than twice as much as in France and Germany (from 10,364 to 31,673 in France) (Milo, 1984 ... as exchange was being liberalized within the framework of international negotiations, notably the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which reflected ...
How does an author enter the canon of World Literature? This article focuses on the role of publi... more How does an author enter the canon of World Literature? This article focuses on the role of publishers in the access of writers to transnational authorship, based on the example of the French publisher Gallimard. The symbolic capital accumulated by Gallimard conferred to this publisher a consecrating power in the transnational literary field, which was reinforced by the dominant position of the French literary field in the world Republic of letters and its central location in Paris. The first part of the paper provides archival evidence of this consecrating role for authors such as Faulkner and Borges, who were to become key figures of the world modernist canon. However, Gallimard’s central position was challenged starting in the 1950s by two factors: the dominant position the United States had acquired in this international competition, and the growing role of literary agents who fueled the national and international competition between publishers. This evolution is illustrated in the second part of the paper through the case of Elsa Morante.
A B S T R A C T This article proposes a structural history of the transformations of modes of con... more A B S T R A C T This article proposes a structural history of the transformations of modes of consecration in the literary field, taking France as an exemplary case study. My approach combines Bourdieu's field theory with Abbott's analysis of professional development. The mechanisms of consecration must be contextualized within the political and economic constraints that the literary field is subjected to. Because of its relatively weak professional development, the consecrating authorities play a major role in the regulating of the literary field and in the building of careers. This article examines literary institutions which appear in different periods: the Académie française, which obtained its power from the state under the Old Regime; the societies of authors and the publishers, which contributed to the professional development of literary activity with the growth of the book market and the withdrawal of the state from the control of this market; the literary journals as relatively autonomous authorities; the literary prizes that are torn between autonomy and heteronomy (with the Goncourt prize as an example); the role of translation and international circulation in the process of consecration; and finally, the festival as a new form of literary recognition, which reflects the process of democratization (based on an empirical study on Les Correspondances de Manosque).