Reality in Literature. Despite a disciplinary history filled with embarrassing determinisms, the
sociology of literature still tries to overcome al methodological obstacles, by proposing a …

Literarity has been considered as an important feature within the literary criticism during the
twentieth century, particularly with the adoption of the structural linguistic framework which …

This article reflects on the identity of literary studies; it asks in particular whether they can be
defined as a “discipline”. After making a distinction between research “discipline” and …

This chapter deals with the fragile relationship of author, reader, and text—thus putting a
particular emphasis on the relation of diegetic and exodiegetic integration of theory into …

Bourdieu's concept of the literary field aimed to overcome the opposition between internal
and external analysis of literary works. This paper examines its theoretical and …

Traditional literary studies are going through what appears to be a long-term crisis (Segre,
1993, 2001; Ceserani, 1999; 2005; Auracher, van Peer, 2008, p. ix; Freeman, 2008; Olivieri …

The end of literature is at hand.[…] Literature, in spite of its approaching end,[…] will survive
all historical and technological changes.[It] is a feature of any human culture at any time and …

Starting with a famously popular case of literary genesis, which is the rewriting of the theatre
play English Without a Teacher in the new variant of The Bald Soprano, this paper aims at …

The concept 'literary autonomy'is as important as it is tricky. No matter the way one is
scholarly engaged in modern literature, sooner or later one is confronted with the …