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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827275903321

Autore

Parker Stephen (Stephen R.)

Titolo

Sinn und form : the anatomy of a literary journal / / Stephen Parker, Matthew Philpotts

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Walter de Gruyter, c2009

ISBN

1-282-71677-8

9786612716775

3-11-021786-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (404 p.)

Collana

Interdisciplinary German cultural studies ; ; v. 6

Classificazione

GB 2599

Altri autori (Persone)

PhilpottsMatthew <1973->

Disciplina

830.9/9431

830.99431

Soggetti

German literature - History - 20th century

German periodicals - History - 20th century

Literature and society - Germany - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-384) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Establishing the Legend: The Accumulation of Symbolic Capital (1948-1955) -- Chapter 2. Dynamic Mediation: The Literary Field and the Field oE Power -- Chapter 3. Institutional Investment: Capital Exchanges in The Academy oE Arts -- Chapter 4. Double Agent? The Editor-in-Chief as Symbolic Banker -- Chapter 5. Contributors: The Social Capital oE the Sinn und Form Salon -- Chapter 6. The Compositional Premium: The Journal as Fractal Text -- Chapter 7. The Circle of Belief: Readership and Reception -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

This study of the legendary Berlin literary and cultural journal Sinn und Form (1949-  ) has a twofold significance. Based on extensive archival research and a detailed reading of the journal's published face, it is a comprehensive history of "Sinn und Form", whose founding editor was Peter Huchel and whose authors include Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch, Pablo Neruda, Romain Rolland, Peter Weiss, Christa Wolf, Heiner Müller and Durs Grünbein. As such, it offers a fascinating perspective on the cultural history of the GDR and post-unification Germany. The study is also a first typological analysis of the anatomy of such a journal,



organised in seven analytical categories: founding conception; cultural-political context; institutional infrastructure; role of editors; network of contributors; textual and compositional dimension; readership and reception. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's sociology of culture, the authors set out to explain how the journal acquired and maintained its influence over the last 60 years. In turn, this conceptualisation of the journal as an agent in the cultural field opens the way for systematic research into literary and cultural journals from a comparative perspective, synthesising sociological and literary approaches.