Rules of Art

This is Bourdieu's long-awaited study of Flaubert and the formation of the modern literary field, it is an important contribution to the study of the social and historical conditions of literary works.

Prologue: Flaubert, Analyst of Flaubert: A Reading of Sentimental Education. Part I: Three States of the Field. 1. The Conquest of Autonomy: The Critical Phase in the Emergence of the Field. 2. The Emergence of a Dualist Structure. 3. The Market for Symbolic Goods. Part II: Foundations of a Science of Works of Art. 4. Questions of Method. 5. The Author's Point of View: Some General Properties of Fields of Cultural Production. Part III: To Understand Understanding. . 6. The Historical Genesis of the Pure Aesthetic. 7. The Social Genesis of the Eye. 8. A Theory of Reading in Practice. Da Capo Illusion and the Illusio. . Postscript For a Corporatism of the Universal. Notes. Index of Names. Subject Index.