Lá e de volta outra vez : J. R. R. Tolkien - campo literário e editorial

• Ano de defesa: 2012
• Autor(a) principal: Racy, Gustavo
• Orientador(a): Borelli, Silvia Helena Simões
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Ciências Sociais
• Departamento: Ciências Sociais
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Campo literário; Campo editorial; John Ronald Reuel Tolkien; História social
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Literary field; Editorial field; Social history
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/3456

What legitimates a text? In what way may one understand literature and even analyze it? This research has as its objective to think about the existents relations in the production of the English literary field departing from three ways: Pierre Bourdieu s sociological analysis of the exchange of symbolic goods and the social and political relations involving the different social fields with which the literary field relates; the historic situation departing from the analysis of Raymond Williams and Edward Palmer Thompson; and at last, the analysis of the chosen literary piece itself through the ideals of myth, language and literature on Walter Benjamin s thinking. For that given its contradictory position in the field - J.R.R Tolkien s work was chosen as object. Even reaching extraordinary levels of popularity in so little time in a moment when publicity and propaganda hadn t invaded the editorial field, the authors work still lives on despite its success through different generations and classes as minor literature, being excluded and little debated by its legitimate pairs