1st Edition

Sociology Lit Taste Ils 90

Edited By Levin L. Schucking Copyright 1998
120 Pages
by Routledge

120 Pages
by Routledge

120 Pages
by Routledge

First Published in 1998. This is Volume VII of a nine volume library of Sociology on the Sociology of Culture and includes a study on the sociology of literary taste. The idea underlying the book is that the concordance of liking evoked by certain works of art, called taste, is due to something other than a simple excellence inherent in the quality of the work itself; rather it is the product of a... Read more
Chapter 1 Contemporary Taste and the spirit of the age; Chapter 2 The Sociological Medium of Literature in the Past; Chapter 3 Shifting of the sociological Position of the Artist; Chapter 4 Literature and Public; Chapter 5 The Start of New Trends of Taste; Chapter 6 Means of Selection; Chapter 7 Public Recognition;

Biography

Levin L. Schucking, E. W. Dickes