Politics of Readings/Politics of Dissemination
Keywords:
editorial policy, literary field, semiosphere, Bourdieu, Pierre, Lotman, Yuri MikhailovichAbstract
The politics of readings and politics of dissemination of literature can be discussed against a background of the system of objective relations as comprehended in Bourdieu’s idea of the literary field, or in Lotman’s concept of the agency of the semiosphere. The views on Bourdieu’s idea of the literary field and its situation within cultural production are reread from a semiotic angle of literature and in view of semiotic consideration of literary historical facts, which are implicitly comparatist in the proper sense.References
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