The Sociological Truth of Fiction. The Aesthetic Structure of a Novel and the Iconic Experience of Reading

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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Sociological Truth of Fiction. The Aesthetic Structure of a Novel and the Iconic Experience of Reading
Original language description
Following the strong program in cultural sociology, I propose a literary turn to recognize literary texts “as relatively autonomous cultural entities” with their own agency. This chapter is part of a larger project connecting cultural sociology with the sociology of literature and literary theory to develop a strong program in the sociology of literature. Instead of approaching literary fiction as an object of analysis, sociology and literature can contribute to social knowledge in a symmetrical way, where fiction is not devalued vis-à-vis social scientific inquiry. Just the opposite: recognizing the specificities of literary communication, we can access textures of social life that are only barely graspable by sociology. A crucial step is to examine how social knowledge comes into existence when reading a fictional text. Embracing the structural aesthetics of Jan Mukařovský, I modify the concept of iconicity to capture the iconic experience of reading through which literature mediates social experience that is iconic of broader social phenomena. Building on social aesthetics, I discuss implications of my model for social theory, textual representation, and sociological explanation in general.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
The Cultural Sociology of Reading. The Meanings of Reading and Books Across the World
ISBN
978-3-031-13226-1
Number of pages of the result
29
Pages from-to
111-139
Number of pages of the book
531
Publisher name
Palgrave Macmillan
Place of publication
Cham
UT code for WoS chapter
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